Thermal, magnetic and electronic properties of non-centrosymmetric YbPt2B
- Author(s)
- R. T. Khan, Friedrich Kneidinger, Gerfried Hilscher, Andrey Sidorenko, Oksana Sologub, Herwig Michor, Ernst Bauer, Peter Franz Rogl, Gerald Giester
- Abstract
Ternary YbPt2B crystallizes in the non-centrosymmetric hexagonal CePt2B-type structure (space groupP6222). Electrical resistivity, specific heat and magnetic measurements reveal a magnetic instability at5.6 K. Furthermore, a spin-reorientation of presumably a ferromagnetic type occurs around 1.5 K.The behaviour at low temperature is governed by a rather weak Kondo effect, TK 1K, in the presenceof strong crystalline electric field splitting, with a doublet ground state. Besides, the complex magneticbehaviour presumably results from a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction triggered by the absence ofinversion symmetry in the crystal structure. Scaling according to the de Gennes factor traces backmagnetic ordering in YbPt2B to the Rudermann-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida (RKKY) interaction and thesmooth evolution of the lattice constants and the unit cell volume of REPt2B (RE = rare earths) refers tothe 4f 13 electronic configuration of Yb in YbPt2B.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Physical Chemistry, Department of Mineralogy and Crystallography
- External organisation(s)
- Technische Universität Wien, Arizona State University
- Journal
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
- Volume
- 27
- No. of pages
- 10
- ISSN
- 0953-8984
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/27/14/146001
- Publication date
- 03-2015
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 104017 Physical chemistry, 104011 Materials chemistry, 105113 Crystallography
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science(all)
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/thermal-magnetic-and-electronic-properties-of-noncentrosymmetric-ybpt2b(66277cf1-4608-4e6f-92a6-dc9a88c78b64).html