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烧绿石晶格的巡回电子磁体:掺铟YMn2Zn20

Itinerant-Electron Magnet of the Pyrochlore Lattice: Indium-Doped YMn2Zn20

Yoshihiko Okamoto, Takeshi Shimizu, Jun-ichi Yamaura, Yoko Kiuchi, Zenji Hiroi

摘要:

我们报告的三元金属间化合物,“YMn_2Zn_20”,包括由Mn原子组成的烧绿石晶格。一系列In掺杂单晶在0.4 K以下没有磁性长程序,尽管Mn原子在高温下具有局部磁矩,显示Curie-Weiss磁性。然而,富In晶体由于取代引起的无序而在约10 K处表现出自旋玻璃化转变,而随着In含量的降低,自旋玻璃化转变温度降低至1 K。然后,热容量除以温度接近280 mJ K-2 mol-1的大值,这表明传导电子的显著大的质量增强。这种类似重费米子的行为不是由普通f电子化合物中的近藤效应引起的,而是由与烧绿石晶格上的几何挫折有关的另一种机制引起的,如在(Y,Sc)Mn 2和LiV 2 O 4中,这可能允许自旋熵在低温下存活并与传导电子耦合。

英文摘要:

We report on a ternary intermetallic compound, "YMn2Zn20", comprising a pyrochlore lattice made of Mn atoms. A series of In-doped single crystals undergo no magnetic long-range order down to 0.4 K, in spite of the fact that the Mn atom carries a local magnetic moment at high temperatures, showing Curie-Weiss magnetism. However, In-rich crystals exhibit spin-glass transitions at approximately 10 K due to a disorder arising from the substitution, while, with decreasing In content, the spin-glass transition temperature is reduced to 1 K. Then, heat capacity divided by temperature approaches a large value of 280 mJ K-2 mol-1, suggesting a significantly large mass enhancement for conduction electrons. This heavy-fermion-like behavior is not induced by the Kondo effect as in ordinary f-electron compounds, but by an alternative mechanism related to the geometrical frustration on the pyrochlore lattice, as in (Y,Sc)Mn2 and LiV2O4, which may allow spin entropy to survive down to low temperatures and to couple with conduction electrons.

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