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| Author(s): |
Medrano, C. P. C.
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Sadrollahi, E.
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Da Fonseca, R. G. M.
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Passamani, E. C.
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Freitas, D. C.
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Continentino, M. A.
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Sanchez, D. R.
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Litterst, F. J.
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Baggio-Saitovitch, E.
Total Authors: 9
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | PHYSICAL REVIEW B; v. 103, n. 6, p. 10-pg., 2021-02-24. |
| Abstract | |
The magnetic properties of site-disordered Ni5Sn(O2BO3)(2) ludwigite have carefully been studied using local probes and bulk experimental methods in temperatures down to 1.6 K and magnetic fields up to 9 T. Our results have clearly shown the role of the effect of order/disorder site occupancy in these complex compounds with spin moments S = 1. Different from most ludwigites, site-disordered Ni5Sn(O2BO3)(2) ludwigite has shown three magnetic transitions at 80, 50, and 5 K. Local probes (Sn-119 Mossbauer and muon spin spectroscopy) have indicated a partial long-range magnetic order with onsets at 80 and 50 K with predominant ferromagnetic interactions at 80 K and antiferromagnetic ones at 50 K. At lower temperatures, a partial spin-glass-like freezing of the moments has been developed concomitantly with fraction of the moments ordered at higher temperatures, a spin-glass-like and long-range magnetic order coexist and a spontaneous exchange bias effect has been observed. Applied magnetic fields have gradually reduced magnetic frustration, leading to a magnetically ordered state of the complete structure at 51 K under 9 T. The absence of double-exchange interactions in order/disorder Ni5Sn(O2BO3)(2) ludwigites shows how the magnetic interactions that compete as direct exchange and double exchange are modified by the site occupancy of nonmagnetic Sn ions. Features as a third magnetic transition, the appearance of spontaneous exchange bias, and the enhancement of the coercive field at low temperatures were not found in the site-ordered isomer compound. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/54082-2 - Acquisition of a vibranting sample magnetometer coupled with a superconducting quantum interference device assensor (Squid-VSM) with cryogenic closed cycle |
| Grantee: | Ernesto Chaves Pereira de Souza |
| Support Opportunities: | Multi-user Equipment Program |