Al. Deoliveira et al., SYSTEMATICS OF MAGNETIC HYPERFINE FIELDS AT DILUTED IMPURITIES IN FERROMAGNETIC RARE-EARTH COMPOUNDS GDX (X = ZN AND CD) - A THEORETICAL-STUDY, Journal of magnetism and magnetic materials, 177, 1998, pp. 1091-1092
The hyperfine fields at 3d transition impurities and at non-magnetic (
s-p and noble) impurities in ferromagnetic GdZn and GdCd are theoretic
ally discussed in the framework of an 'effective' Gd host. The observe
d general trend of the measured hyperfine fields is well reproduced by
our model calculations. The calculated local moments at Sc and Ni imp
urities in these intermetallics are very small, whereas in the case of
Mn and Fe impurities one gets a finite moment of about 1.1 mu(B) and
0.8 mu(B), respectively, which couples antiferromagnetically with the
host Gd moments in a quite good agreement with experimental data. (C)
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