Published January 1, 1995 | Version v1
Journal article

Influence of temperature and magnetic field on ferrimagnetic CePtGe2

  • 1. Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 (United States)
  • 2. Ames Laboratory and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 (United States)
  • 3. Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 (United States)

Description

An external magnetic field causes a significant (more than twofold) increase of γ deduced from high-temperature-range data (i.e., the paramagnetic state) showing no saturation even at 7.5 T, and a slight rise of the electronic specific-heat coefficient for the magnetically ordered state up to ∼125 mJ/mol K2 with saturation at this value in a much lower field (2.5 T). The entropy (ΔS) associated with the ferrimagnetic phase transition is estimated to be 2.9 J/mol K, which is only 0.35R or 50% of the theoretically expected R ln2 value. The heat-capacity and resistivity measurements suggest that CePtGe2 is a moderately heavy-fermion system

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
51
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 954-961.
ISSN
0163-1829
CODEN
PRBMDO