Elastic Softening in HoFe<sub>2</sub>Al<sub>10</sub> due to the Quadrupole Interaction under an Orthorhombic Crystal Electric Field

  • Isao Ishii
    Department of Quantum Matter, ADSM, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8530, Japan
  • Shuhei Kamikawa
    Department of Quantum Matter, ADSM, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8530, Japan
  • Yoshihito Noguchi
    Department of Quantum Matter, ADSM, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8530, Japan
  • Fumiya Nakagawa
    Department of Quantum Matter, ADSM, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8530, Japan
  • Takashi Suzuki
    Department of Quantum Matter, ADSM, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8530, Japan
  • Takahiro K. Fujita
    Department of Quantum Matter, ADSM, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8530, Japan
  • Hiroshi Tanida
    Department of Quantum Matter, ADSM, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8530, Japan
  • Masafumi Sera
    Department of Quantum Matter, ADSM, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8530, Japan
  • Hiroki Goto
    Department of Quantum Matter, ADSM, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8530, Japan

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公開日
2016-07-15
資源種別
journal article
DOI
  • 10.7566/jpsj.85.074604
公開者
Physical Society of Japan

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To investigate 4f electronic states in HoFe2Al10 under an orthorhombic crystal electric field (CEF), we measured the specific heat, magnetic susceptibility, magnetization, and elastic modulus of single-crystalline samples. We found elastic softening of the transverse elastic moduli C55 and C66 below 20 and 130 K, respectively. With further decreasing temperature, C66 shows further elastic softening below 5 K. We observed two Schottky peaks in the specific heat at 2.2 and 20 K and small anisotropy of the magnetic susceptibility and magnetization in the paramagnetic region. By analyzing these experimental data, we obtained the CEF parameters of HoFe2Al10. From the analysis, we clarified that the softening of C55 and C66 originates from indirect quadrupole interactions of Ozx and Oxy, and propose that the overall CEF splitting is about 85 K.

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