Effects of disorder and isotopic substitution in the specific heat and Raman scattering in LuB{sub 12}
- Russian Academy of Sciences, Prokhorov General Physics Institute (Russian Federation)
- Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Solid State Physics (Russian Federation)
- Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Experimental Physics (Slovakia)
- National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Problems of Materials Science (Ukraine)
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Institute of Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry (Belgium)
Precision measurements of the specific heat and spectral intensity I({omega}) of Raman scattering for Lu{sup N}B{sub 12} single crystal samples with various boron isotopes (N = 10, 11, nat) have been performed at low and intermediate temperatures. A boson peak in the low-frequency part of the I({omega}) spectrum has been observed for the first time for lutetium dodecaboride at liquid nitrogen temperatures. It has been shown that low-temperature anomalies in the specific heat, along with the features of Raman spectra, can be interpreted in terms of the transition to a cageglass state at T* = 50-70 K, which appears when Lu{sup 3+} ions are displaced from the centrosymmetric position in cavities of a rigid covalent boron sublattice towards the randomly located boron vacancies. The concentrations of various two-level systems that correspond to two types of vibrational clusters with correlation lengths of 12-15 and 18-22 A, respectively, have been estimated. The vibrational density of states of LuB{sub 12} has been calculated from Raman spectra in the model of soft atomic potentials. An approach has been proposed to explain the dielectrization of the properties of the YbB{sub 12} compound at T < T*, as well as the features of the formation of magnetic structures in RB{sub 12} antiferromagnets (R = Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm) and the suppression of superconductivity in LuB{sub 12}.
- OSTI ID:
- 22028020
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, Vol. 113, Issue 3; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2011 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1063-7761
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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