Neutron study of the magnetic correlations in amorphous ErCo<sub>2</sub>. I. Evidence for correlations between local easy-magnetisation directions using neutron polarisation analysis
B Boucher; A Lienard; J P Rebouillat; J Schweizer; B Boucher; CENS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; A Lienard; CENS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; J P Rebouillat; CENS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; J Schweizer; CENS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Журнал:
Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics
Дата:
1979-07-01
Аннотация:
Amorphous ErCo<sub>2</sub> exhibits at low temperature a sperimagnetic structure: the cobalt moments are parallel, while the erbium moments are opposed but strongly connected to their local easy-magnetisation axes. The present study with polarised neutrons and polarisation analysis shows that there exists a correlation between the erbium magnetic components perpendicular to the cobalt magnetisation. Their arrangement is ferro- or antiferromagnetic, depending on the angle between the cobalt moments and the easy axes. There is evidence for correlation between the local easy-magnetisation axes which are not distributed at random. As a result, the existence of magnetic subdomains may be deduced. The correlation between erbium moments vanishes when the temperature increases and the anisotropy disappears.
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