Microscopic model for the magnetic subsystem in HoNi2B2C

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1998

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American Physical Society

Abstract

We demonstrate that the system of localized magnetic moments in HoNi2B2C can be described by the four-positional clock model. This model, at a proper choice of the coupling constants, yields several metamagnetic phases in magnetic field at zero temperature in full agreement with the experimental phase diagram. The model incorporates couplings between non-nearest neighbors in the direction perpendicular to the ferromagnetic planes. The same model leads to a c-modulated magnetic phase near the Curie temperature. The theoretical value of the modulation wave vector agrees surprisingly well with that observed by the neutron-diffraction experiment without new adjustable parameters.

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ANTIFERROMAGNETIC SUPERCONDUCTOR HONI2B2C, SINGLE-CRYSTAL HONI2B2C, ISING-MODEL, ORDER, Physics

Citation

VA Kalatsky and Valery L. Pokrovsky. Phys.Rev.B 57 5485-5488 1998."Copyright (1998) by the American Physical Society."