Moment stability and spin fluctuations in ferromagnetic Au4V

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Au4V is an extremely unusual alloy. Neither Au nor V is generally found to carry a magnetic moment in the metallic state, yet the body-centred tetragonal (bct), structurally ordered, form of Au4V is ferromagnetic with a Curie temperature of ~45K. Although possessing many features characteristic of "weak itinerant electron faerromagnets", including a marked sensitivity to atomic environment, other features appear cosnsitent with a spin 1/2 local moment magnet. We propose to carry out a range of zero and longitudinal field MuSR measurements on both Au4V and its fcc atomically disordered, non magnetic, solid solution counterpart Au(100-x)Vx, to study the evolution of spin fluctuations as magnetic order is approached. Comparison of the MuSR spectra with predictions of SCR spin fluctuation theory will elucidate the precise nature of the V moment in this compound.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24070173
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24070173
Provenance
Creator Professor Sue Kilcoyne; Mr Kevin Ellis
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
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 Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-07-13T09:46:57Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-07-17T08:16:14Z