Probing the local magnetism of R2TSi3-type (R = rare earth ; T = Ni, Co) compounds through MuSR measurements

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The crystal structure of R2T(Ni,Co)Si3 consists of hexagonal layers of rare-earth atoms and randomly distributed T-Si arranged alternately along hexagonal c-axis. Magnetic frustration in these types of compounds arise primarily due to competing exchange interactions and random distribution of T/Si. Such variations of the local environment among the rare earth ions are conducive of coexistence of magnetically different phases having spatial limitations in an otherwise crystallographically single phase compound. On the basis of physical characterization, it is found that the ground state magnetic interactions in these compounds are quite complex. MuSR measurements is an ideal probe to investigate the nature of local magnetism. Here we propose to investigate the local ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic coupling in R2T(Ni,Co)Si3 compounds through MuSR measurements at different temperatures.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.97970770
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/97970770
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Creator Dr Stephen Cottrell; Mr Santanu Pakhira; Dr Devashi Adroja; Miss Mily Kundu; Dr Aidy Hillier; Professor R Ranganathan; Professor Chandan Mazumdar
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-10-07T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-10-11T07:48:05Z