Study of Al impurity induced magnetic instability in CeFe{sub 2}
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 721302 (India)
We report experimental and computational studies on Al impurity induced magnetic instabilities in CeFe{sub 2}. The work is based on the reported first order magneto-structural phase transition in Ce(Fe{sub 1-x}Al{sub x}){sub 2}, with 0.02 ≤ x ≤ 0.08, below 90 K. We performed first-principles calculations of electronic and magnetic properties of Ce(Fe{sub 1-x}Al{sub x}){sub 2} for x = 0.031 and 0.25. A concentration dependence of Fe and Ce moments is observed, while the Al impurity does not carry any appreciable moment in either case. We investigated spin-polarised partial density of states of Ce(Fe{sub 1-x}Al{sub x}){sub 2} and their various hybridizations in order to find an answer for an antiferromagnetic kind of order at low temperatures.
- OSTI ID:
- 22391703
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1661, Issue 1; Conference: ICCMP 2014: International Conference on Condensed Matter Physics 2014, Shimla (India), 4-6 Nov 2014; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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