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1Center for Correlated Matter and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
We report the successful synthesis of the polycrystalline compounds CePd2As2-xPx (0 ≤ x ≤ 2) and their physical properties by measuring transport, magnetic and thermodynamic behaviors as a function of temperature and/or magnetic field. Powder x-ray diffraction indicates that CePd2As2-xPx crystallizes in the ThCr2Si2-type tetragonal structure. CePd2As2 exhibits a moderate Sommerfeld coefficient of γ ≈ 88 mJ mol(-1) K(-2), and undergoes an antiferromagnetic (AFM) transition at the Néel temperature TN ≈ 15 K. Upon substituting As with P, the TN is nearly unchanged up to x ≃ 0.6, while a ferromagnetic (FM) transition develops below TN for x ≃ 0.4. The Curie temperature TC increases with increasing x and eventually merges with the AFM transition at x ≃ 0.6. With further increase of x, the system follows typical FM behaviors and its TC monotonically increases and reaches TC ≈ 28 K in CePd2P2. Moreover, a metamagnetic transition is observed in the As-rich samples, but vanishes for x ≥ 0.4. Such a tunable magnetic ground state may provide an opportunity to explore the possible quantum critical behavior in CePd2As2-xPx.
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