Influence of Mn/Fe ratio on the magnetic properties of the Mn2−xFexP0.5As0.5, 0.5≤x≤1 alloys

The analysis of 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy results for cation and anion substituted Mn2-xFexP1-yAsy was done in order to find out the influence of the Mn/Fe ratio on the magnetic properties of solid solutions and to compare experimental hyperfine parameters with those calculated from firstprinciples.The correlation between third Mössbauer sextet in Mn2-xFexP0.5As0.5 spectrum at 77K and stabilization of the antiferromagnetic phase for x = 0.5-0.6 was found on the basis of comparison between the magnetic phase diagrams and the "hyperfine field - iron content" dependence. The observed qualitative difference for Mn2-xFexP0.5As0.5 and MnFeAsyP1-y "hyperfine field - concentration" diagrams was interpreted on the basis of different mechanisms of magnetic phase stabilization and the different configurations of tetrahedral anionic environment of iron ions for systems with cation and anion substitutions.