Measurements of the complete magnetic moment vector in single crystals of PrAl2and NdAl2
- 20 April 1982
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics
- Vol. 15 (11), 2459-2469
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3719/15/11/023
Abstract
Magnetisation measurements parallel and perpendicular to the applied field are reported for single crystals of ferromagnetic NdAl2 and PrAl2 in the range 4.2-200K and for magnetic fields up to 8.00 T applied in the (100) direction and directions near to (110) and (111). A quantitative description of the magnetisation is given in terms of a two-dimensional molecular field theory using two crystal-field parameters and the molecular field constant. Below the Curie temperature a satisfactory agreement between theory and experiment is obtained.Keywords
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