Magnetic order in Metamagnetic Shape Memory Alloys: a muon study

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Metamagnetic Shape Memory Alloys (MMSMAS) undergo a martensitic transformation which is accompanied with a large drop in magnetization on cooling, making the low temperature phase (martensite) either weakly magnetic or non magnetic at all, in stark contrast and contrary to the conventional behaviour of magnetic materials. Such behaviour enables the achievement of the reverse transformation into austenite by application of a moderate magnetic field. The ferrimagnetism of the austenitic phase is well documented. However, the magnetic character of the martensitic phase remains controversial and different behaviours, such as a spin glass phase, antiferromagnetic or just a paramagnetic phase have been suggested. We propose to carry out a muon spin rotation and relaxation study on the Ni42Co8Mn39Sn11 MMSM alloy to discriminate the presence of spin-glass or weak antiferromagnetic phases.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.79112702
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/79112702
Provenance
Creator Dr Patricia Lázpita; Dr Jon Gutierrez; Dr Fiona Coomer; Professor Javier Bermejo; Dr Jose Manuel Barandiaran; Dr Chernenko
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
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 2016-04-27T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-04-28T08:30:00Z