Published August 15, 1978 | Version v1
Journal article

Crystal-field properties of Yb2Ti2O7 using 170Yb Moessbauer spectroscopy

  • 1. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439

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Moessbauer spectroscopy has been used to investigate the crystal-field levels of Yb3+ in Yb2Ti2O7. The hyperfine field observed when an external field is applied provides a local magnetization measurement which has been interpreted in terms of an appropriate crystal-field Hamiltonian. A procedure is described for performing a powder average to include the effects of magnetic anisotropy in the calculations. Combining the current results and previous measurements on isomorphic compounds gives crystal-field values of B02 = 15--21 K and B04/B02 = 0.01

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Journal Title
Phys. Rev., B
Journal Volume
18
Journal Issue
4
Series
Phys. Rev., B.
Journal Page Range
1936-1941