Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5490036 | Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials | 2017 | 20 Pages |
Abstract
In this work, we present a detailed study on the magnetic property and critical behavior in the austenitic phase of Ni43Mn46Sn8X3 alloys with X = Cr and In, which were prepared by an arc-melting method in an argon ambience. The M(T) curve of the Cr sample (X = Cr) exhibits a single magnetic phase transition at the Curie temperature of the ferromagnetic (FM) austenitic phase with TAC = 303 K. In contrast, the In sample (X = In) exhibits multiple magnetic phase transitions, including a magnetic phase transition from a FM state to weakly magnetic state at TMC = 165 K of the martensitic phase, a martensitic transition from the weakly magnetic to the FM austenite phase at TM-A = 259 K, and a magnetic phase transition from the FM to paramagnetic (PM) at TAC = 297 K of the austenite phase. Based on the Landau theory and M(H) data measured at different temperatures, we pointed that the FM-PM phase transitions around TAC in both samples were the second-order phase transition. Our results suggest an existence of the long-range FM interactions in the austenite phase. A small deviation from the mean-field theory of the critical exponents has been also observed pointing out an existence of the inhomogeneous magnetism that could be associated with the presence of the anti-FM interactions in these samples. Besides, their effective exponents βeff(ε) and γeff(ε) have been also calculated.
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Authors
W.Z. Nan, Tran Dang Thanh, G. Nam, T.S. You, H.G. Piao, L.Q. Pan, S.C. Yu,