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M Janoschek1, R E Baumbach, J J Hamlin
1Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Abstract:
We report measurements of the electrical resistivity, magnetization and specific heat on single crystals of the non-centrosymmetric compound Sm2Fe12P7. The magnetization measurements demonstrate that Sm2Fe12P7 exhibits ferromagnetic order below TM, 1 = 6.3 K. The ratio of the effective magnetic moment obtained from a Curie-Weiss fit to the magnetic susceptibility in the paramagnetic state, to the saturation magnetic moment in the ordered state indicates that the ordered state is associated with itinerant electrons. The specific heat measurements reveal an enhanced value for the coefficient of the electronic specific heat γ ∼ 450 mJ mol (-1) K (-2) that is accompanied by a large coefficient A of the T(2) term in the electrical resistivity at low temperatures, suggesting a heavy fermion ground state. Several consecutive magnetic phase transitions indicative of competing magnetic energy scales and the observation of a metamagnetic transition in the magnetization data additionally suggest proximity to a quantum critical point.
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