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Niharika Mohapatra1, K Mukherjee, Kartik K Iyer
1School of Basics Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology-Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar 751013, India. niharika@iitbbs.ac.in
Abstract:
We present magnetic characterization of a binary rare-earth intermetallic compound Er(5)Si(3), crystallizing in Mn(5)Si(3)-type hexagonal structure, through magnetization, heat capacity, electrical resistivity and magnetoresistance measurements. Our investigations confirm that the compound exhibits two magnetic transitions with decreasing temperature, the first one at 35 K and the second one at 15 K. The present results reveal that the second magnetic transition is a disorder-broadened first-order transition, as shown by thermal hysteresis in the measured data. Another important finding is that, below 15 K, there is a magnetic-field-induced transition with a hysteretic effect with the electrical resistance getting unusually enhanced at this transition and the magnetoresistance is found to exhibit intriguing magnetic-field dependence, indicating novel magnetic phase coexistence phenomenon. It thus appears that this compound is characterized by interesting magnetic anomalies in the temperature-magnetic-field phase diagram.
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