Muon spin relaxation and neutron diffraction studies of cluster-glass states in Sr1−xLaxRuO3
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2016-04-04
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The Physical Society of Japan
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To clarify the magnetic properties of cluster-glass states in Sr1−xLaxRuO3 (0.3 ≤ x ≤ 0.5), we report herein the results of muon spin relaxation (μSR) and neutron powder diffraction measurements. The μSR experiments showed that magnetic clusters start developing well above the peak temperature T* in the ac susceptibility. The volume fraction of the magnetically ordered region increases continuously with decreasing temperature, showing no anomaly at T*, and reaches nearly 100% at the lowest temperature. The temperature variation of the volume fraction is essentially independent of the La concentration in the x range presently investigated, although the dc magnetization is significantly suppressed with increasing x. Neutron powder diffraction experiments revealed that the ground state for x = 0.3 is a long-range ferromagnetic ordered state. These results indicate that, with decreasing temperature, cluster-glass states in Sr1−xLaxRuO3 gradually develop into long-range ferromagnetic ordered states with decreasing temperature, and that the magnetic ordering process differs strikingly from that expected for a conventional second-order ferromagnetic transition. ©2016 The Physical Society of Japan
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Magnetic properties, Muon spin relaxation, Magnetization, Neutron diffraction, Ground states, Ferromagnetism
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Kawasaki, I., Fujimura, K., Watanabe, I., Avdeev, M., Tenya, K. & Yokoyama, M. (2016). Muon spin relaxation and neutron diffraction studies of cluster-glass states in Sr1−xLaxRuO3, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 85(5), 054701. doi:10.7566/JPSJ.85.054701