Crystalline electric field effects in the filled skutterudite compound PrOs<sub>4</sub>P<sub>12</sub>
- Author(s)
- William M. Yuhasz, Pei Chun Ho, T A Sayles, T Yanagisawa, Neil A. Frederick, M. Brian Maple, Peter Franz Rogl, Gerald Giester
- Abstract
The filled skutterudite compound PrOs4P12 was synthesized in single-crystal form using a molten metal flux growth technique. Low-temperature magnetization, specific heat, and electrical resistivity measurements showed no indication of a phase transition down to 0.1 K but had features indicative of crystalline electric field (CEF) effects. Analyses of these features in terms of a cubic CEF suggest a Γ1 singlet or a Γ3 doublet ground state separated by 30–50 K from a Γ5 triplet first excited state. © IOP Publishing Ltd.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Physical Chemistry, Department of Mineralogy and Crystallography
- External organisation(s)
- University of California, San Diego
- Journal
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
- Volume
- 19
- Pages
- 76212-76219
- No. of pages
- 8
- ISSN
- 0953-8984
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/19/7/076212
- Publication date
- 2007
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 104017 Physical chemistry
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/7e8f00a2-67ae-4b11-a334-672ad641295b