1997 Volume 66 Issue 9 Pages 2844-2850
The magnetic properties of TmCu2Si2 are studied by magnetometric measurement, inelastic neutron scattering (INS) experiment, elastic constant measurement using ultrasonic velocity and neutron diffraction experiment on the powdered and single crystalline samples. Crystalline electric field (CEF) parameters which are determined by the magnetic susceptibility and the INS spectrum give 4f CEF levels consisting of a singlet Γ3(1) ground state, a singlet Γ4(1) first excited state at 6.1 K, a doublet Γ5(1) second excited state at 79.5 K, and so on. Temperature variation of the 4f CEF level population, especially that of doublet Γ5(1), explains well anomalous behavior of the magnetic susceptibility along the a-axis exhibiting the minimum around 15 K and the maximum around 45 K. Weak lattice softening below 120 K is also attributable mainly to strain susceptibility of Γ5(1). An exchange-induced Van Vleck antiferromagnetic transition occurs at 2.8 K, since magnitude of transition probability between the ground Γ3(1) and excited Γ4(1) singlets is so large to induce the magnetic transition. It is confirmed that the antiferromagnetic structure is a sinusoidally moment-modulated one described by a propagation vector of q = (δ, δ, 0) with δ=0.147, where the Tm moments align along the c-axis.
This article cannot obtain the latest cited-by information.