4f electronic states of the filled skutterudite compound PrFe4Sb12 synthesized under high pressure

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Crystals of the filled skutterudite PrFe4Sb12 with the 73~87% Pr-site filling fractions prepared under ambient pressure show some magnetic ordering around 5 K and their crystal-field (CF) ground state are reported to be a magnetic triplet. In the crystal with 97% filling fraction synthesized under high pressure, on the other hand, absence of the magnetic transition has been confirmed and its bulk properties clearly evidence that the CF ground state is a singlet. Such drastic effect of the filling fraction on the magnetic properties may be related to the 3d-electrons with the large density of states at the Fermi energy. Therefore, in order to clarify the correlation between the itinerant 3d-electrons and the CF states of 4f-electrons, first of all, we would like to microscopically determine the CF level scheme of PrFe4Sb12 with high filling fraction synthesized under high pressure.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB720492-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24003354
Provenance
Creator Mr Kenya Tanaka; Dr Keitaro Kuwahara; Mr Syohei Itobe; Dr K Iwasa
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2007-12-03T12:13:29Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-10-17T11:43:23Z