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Spin Glassiness and Ferromagnetism in Disordered Ni-Mn Alloys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

James S. Kouvel
James S. Kouvel*
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Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60680, USA
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Abstract

From magnetic measurements, the alloy Ni78Mn22 is found to undergo a field-induced transition from spin glassiness to ferromagnetism at a critical field that decreases from ∼140 Oe to zero as the temperature is raised from 4.2 K to 40 K, the ferromagnetic Curie point being ∼270 K. The alloy Ni74Mn26 is found to transform at 80 K from a spin glass to a state of infinite initial susceptibility but no spontaneous magnetization and to remain so up to 155 K, where it becomes paramagnetic. The spin-glass properties of Ni78Mn22 below 40 K and of Ni74Mn26 below 80 K include displaced hysteresis loops produced by cooling in a field. The changes in the hysteresis loops upon subsequent warming correspond to a gradual conversion of a unidirectional anisotropy to a uniaxial anisotropy.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 19: Symposium E – Alloy Phase Diagrams , 1982 , 353
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1983

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