The study of freedom of spin in the partially disordered state in the long-period antiferromagnetic spin structure has been reviewed. In the commensulate phase with the wave vector
k (0, 0,
k) for
k=13/14 and
k=7/9 in PrCo
2Si
2, paramagnetic ions with individual entropy
kB ln 2 have been found to be immersed regularly by the direct analysis of the observed heat capacity in zero external magnetic field. The partially disordered spins in the two-dimensional triangular antiferromagnetic lattice have been also detected in the magnetic structure (√7, √7, 2) of CuFeO
2.
View full abstract