Faculty Publications
Magnetic Behavior Of Melt-Spun Gadolinium
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume
77
Issue
18
Abstract
Melt-spun Gd is a structurally inhomogeneous system consisting of crystalline grains with an average size of 24±3 nm that are separated by an amorphous interphase. This system exhibits a depression of TC (289.70±0.01 K) relative to bulk Gd (293 K). The effective critical exponents (βeff =0.389±0.017, γeff =1.300±0.014, and δ=4.32±0.02) and critical amplitudes indicate that for the reduced-temperature range in this work, the paramagnetic-to-ferromagnetic transition is consistent with the isotropic dipolar universality class shown by bulk Gd. There is, however, evidence of enhanced anisotropy in the critical behavior of ms-Gd. Increasing random anisotropy in the intergrain regions with decreasing temperature below TC diminishes the coupling between the ferromagnetically ordered grains and produces a previously unobserved low-temperature peak in the imaginary part of the ac susceptibility. The random-anisotropy model provides a good description of the approach to saturation, which may result from the ferromagnetic correlation length becoming comparable to the anisotropy correlation length in the strong-field regime of the model. © 2008 The American Physical Society.
Department
Department of Physics
Original Publication Date
5-14-2008
DOI of published version
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.184415
Recommended Citation
Shand, P. M.; Bohnet, J. G.; Goertzen, J.; Shield, J. E.; Schmitter, D.; Shelburne, G.; and Leslie-Pelecky, D. L., "Magnetic Behavior Of Melt-Spun Gadolinium" (2008). Faculty Publications. 2435.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/2435
