NEUTRON CRYSTAL-FIELD SPECTROSCOPY OF RNI(2)(11)B(2)C (R=HO,ER,TM)

Authors
GASSER U ALLENSPACH P BUCHGEISTER M FAUTH F HENGGELER W MESOT J ROSENKRANZ S VORDERWISCH P FURRER A
Citation
U. Gasser et al., NEUTRON CRYSTAL-FIELD SPECTROSCOPY OF RNI(2)(11)B(2)C (R=HO,ER,TM), Czechoslovak journal of Physics, 46, 1996, pp. 821-822
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Czechoslovak journal of Physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00114626
Volume
46
Year of publication
1996
Supplement
2
Pages
821 - 822
Database
ISI
SICI code
0011-4626(1996)46:<821:NCSOR(>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
Inelastic neutron scattering experiments of the crystal-electric-field (CEF) splitting of the R(3+)-ions (R = Ho, Er, Tm) in the superconduc tor RNi(2)(11)B(2)C have been performed in the paramagnetic as well as in the magnetically ordered state in order to deduce the CEF paramete rs which in turn determine the magnetic properties of these systems. B oth the easy axis and the size of the zero-field moments are correctly reproduced by our calculations. Our CEF parameter set also reproduces the behaviour of specific heat and M/H measured for single crystals.