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Spin density wave and antiferromagnetic transition in EuFe2As2: a high field transport and heat capacity study

  • Anurag Yadav and Anuj Kumar ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: May 23, 2023
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International Journal of Materials Research
From the journal International Journal of Materials Research Volume 114 Issue 7-8

Abstract

Here we reported structural, electrical, magnetic, and thermal transport properties of ternary pnictide bulk iron based compound EuFe2As2 (Eu-122). This compound (Eu-122) crystallized in ThCr2Si2-type tetragonal phase structure with space group I4/mmm at ambient temperature. A promising divalent state (Eu2+) of Eu-ions was observed in the studied EuFe2As2. Magnetic ordering of Eu2+ ions takes place at very low temperature at around TN = 20 K in EuFe2As2. The ferromagnetic interactions between Fe–Fe ions were established at higher temperature which was revealed from magnetic susceptibility measurements with negative value of the paramagnetic Curie temperature. Both magnetic phase transitions (20 K and 190 K) were clearly established the intrinsic magnetic nature revealed by both electrical transport and specific heat measurement. However the phase transition at low temperature corresponds to the magnetic ordering of Eu2+ ions while the high transition temperature is due to the itinerant moment of Fe. EuFe2As2 is the only compound among various parent compounds of iron pnictide superconductor’s family, in which both spin density wave (SDW) of Fe and A-type antiferromagnetic (AFM) ordering of the localized Eu2+ magnetic moments take place simultaneously. We observed here that the localized character of Eu anti-ferromagnetism dominated via RKKY interactions, despite the largely itinerant nature of Fe magnetic interactions. The resistivity with applied magnetic field revealed that the AFM ordering temperature of Eu2+ ions suppress with applied magnetic field. Also resistivity under hydrostatic pressure measurements shows the TSDW (Fe) transition of the Fe moments shifts towards the lower temperatures while AFM ordering of Eu2+ decreases with pressure and the same is completely disappears at 2 GPa.

Keywords: Fe based superconductor; Heat capacity; Transport
Corresponding author: Anuj Kumar, Department of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Noida 201304, Uttar Pradesh, India, E-mail:

Funding source: Jaypee Institute of Information Technology

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Funding source: National Physical Laboratory

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Acknowledgements

One of us, Anurag Yadav is thankful to Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida for providing financial assistance as Ph.D. fellowship. Authors also would like to thanks Dr. V.P.S. Awana, Senior Principal Scientist at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory for providing measurement facility (Physical Property Measurement System-14 T).

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Received: 2021-12-22
Accepted: 2023-02-01
Published Online: 2023-05-23
Published in Print: 2023-07-28

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Keywords for this article
Fe based superconductor; Heat capacity; Transport

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