The magnetic phase diagram of rare-earth perovskite compound,GdScO3,has been investigated by magnetization and heat capacity.The system undergoes an antiferromagnetic phase transition at TN=2.6 K,with an easy axis of ...The magnetic phase diagram of rare-earth perovskite compound,GdScO3,has been investigated by magnetization and heat capacity.The system undergoes an antiferromagnetic phase transition at TN=2.6 K,with an easy axis of magnetization along the a axis.The magnetization measurements show that it exists a spin-flop transition around 0.3 T for the applied field along the a axis.The critical magnetic field for the antiferromagnetic-to-paramagnetic transition is near 3.2 T when temperature approaches zero.By scaling susceptibilities,we presume this point(B=3.2 T,T=0 K)might be a fieldinduced quantum critical point and the magnetic critical fluctuations can even be felt above TN.展开更多
基金The work at SUSTech was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11974157)Part of this work was also supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11875265)+1 种基金the Scientific Instrument Developing Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(3He-based neutron polarization devices)the Institute of High Energy Physics,the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Kan X C and Tian M L were supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51802002).
文摘The magnetic phase diagram of rare-earth perovskite compound,GdScO3,has been investigated by magnetization and heat capacity.The system undergoes an antiferromagnetic phase transition at TN=2.6 K,with an easy axis of magnetization along the a axis.The magnetization measurements show that it exists a spin-flop transition around 0.3 T for the applied field along the a axis.The critical magnetic field for the antiferromagnetic-to-paramagnetic transition is near 3.2 T when temperature approaches zero.By scaling susceptibilities,we presume this point(B=3.2 T,T=0 K)might be a fieldinduced quantum critical point and the magnetic critical fluctuations can even be felt above TN.
