Published August 1997 | Version v1
Journal article

Valence states of Yb in Yb5Si3

  • 1. Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, 30-059 Krakow (Poland)
  • 2. CEA, Centre dEtudes de Saclay, Departement de Recherche sur lEtat Condense, les Atomes et les Molecules, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  • 3. CNRS, Place Aristide Briant, 92000 Meudon (France)
  • 4. W. Trzebiatowski Intitute for Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Science, 50-950 Wroclaw (Poland)
  • 5. Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, 16146 Genova (Italy)

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We have measured the quadrupole hyperfine interaction in the intermetallic compound Yb5Si3 using 170Yb Moessbauer absorption spectroscopy in the temperature range 0.03 endash 80 K and 172Yb perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy in the temperature range 20 endash 750 K. Data of LIII-edge x-ray absorption and magnetic susceptibility are also presented, as well as a 170Yb Moessbauer spectrum with a magnetic field of 7 T at 4.2 K. There are two distinct crystallographic sites for Yb in Yb5Si3. The whole set of our measurements shows that the two sites contain Yb ions in a charge state close to 3+, but with different hybridization strengths, making Yb5Si3 a unique compound. No magnetic ordering of the Yb3+ sublattice is shown down to a temperature of 0.03 K. copyright 1997 The American Physical Society

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Journal Title
Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
56
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 3690-3696.
ISSN
0163-1829
CODEN
PRBMDO