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dc.contributor.authorRojas Pupo, Daniel 
dc.contributor.authorEspeso Martínez, José Ignacio 
dc.contributor.authorRodríguez Fernández, Jesús 
dc.contributor.authorGómez Sal, J. C. 
dc.contributor.authorRusu, Corneliu G.
dc.contributor.authorAndreica, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorDudric, Roxana
dc.contributor.authorAmato, A.
dc.contributor.otherUniversidad de Cantabriaes_ES
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-20T15:50:27Z
dc.date.available2012-03-20T15:50:27Z
dc.date.issued2011-07
dc.identifier.issn1098-0121
dc.identifier.otherMAT2008-06542-C04
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10902/499
dc.description.abstractThe nature of the first-order ferromagnetic transition in binary CeIn2 alloy is investigated by muon spin rotation (μSR) measurements and chemical substitution of Ce by La in the La1−xCexIn2 (0.9 x 1.0) series of alloys. Below 22 K, the analysis of μSR spectra shows two spin precession frequencies associated with the local field at the muon site created by the surrounding ferromagnetic ordered magnetic moments. These frequencies abruptly disappear above TC, indicating the first-order character of this transition, as previously reported. For temperatures between 22 and 24 K, the shape of the μSR spectra indicates the existence of an additional magnetic phase with features of an incommensurate magnetic structure. The presence of this magnetic phase is supported by dc(ac)-magnetic susceptibility and specific-heat results obtained on chemical diluted samples,which also show a magnetic contribution above the ferromagnetic transition. The combined analysis of these results clarifies the first-order character of the ferromagnetic transition in CeIn2, based on the existence of an intermediate magnetic phase between the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic stateses_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work has been supported by the Direction of the Universities of the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain under contract No. MAT2008-06542-C04. D.A., C.R., and R.D. acknowledge financial support from the Romanian CNCSIS-UEFISCU Project PNII-IDEI 2597/2009 (Contract No. 444)
dc.format.extent7 p.es_ES
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherAmerican Physical Societyes_ES
dc.rights© American Physical Societyes_ES
dc.sourcePhysical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics, 2011, 84(2), 024403es_ES
dc.subject.otherFirst-order transitiones_ES
dc.subject.otherCeIn2es_ES
dc.subject.otherFerromagnetic Ce alloyes_ES
dc.subject.otherHeat capacityes_ES
dc.subject.otherMuon spin rotationes_ES
dc.titleFirst-order nature of the ferromagnetism in CeIn2 investigated using muon spin rotation and by systematic substitution of La for Cees_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES
dc.relation.publisherVersionhttp://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.024403
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccesses_ES
dc.identifier.DOI10.1103/PhysRevB.84.024403
dc.type.versionpublishedVersiones_ES


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