Mossbauer spectroscopy of NH<sub>4</sub>Co<sub>0.994</sub>Fe<sub>0.006</sub>Cl<sub>3</sub> and CsCo<sub>0.99</sub>Fe<sub>0.01</sub>Cl<sub>3</sub>
N I Sheen; V H McCann; N I Sheen; Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Canterbury Univ., Christchurch, New Zealand; V H McCann; Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Canterbury Univ., Christchurch, New Zealand
Журнал:
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Дата:
1995-02-27
Аннотация:
Mossbauer spectra of NH<sub>4</sub>Co<sub>0.994</sub>Fe<sub>0.006</sub>Cl<sub>3</sub> have been recorded in the temperature range 1.3 to 250 K. The spectra are similar to those of isostructural CsCo<sub>0.99</sub>Fe<sub>0.01</sub>Cl<sub>3</sub> which is a quasi-one-dimensional Ising-like antiferromagnet. For NH<sub>4</sub>Co<sub>0.994</sub>Fe<sub>0.006</sub>Cl<sub>3</sub> the transition to a partially disordered magnetic state occurs at T<sub>N1</sub>=(27+or-2) K and to the fully magnetically ordered state at T<sub>N1</sub>=(11+or-2) K. As for CsCo<sub>0.99</sub>Fe<sub>0.01</sub>Cl<sub>3</sub> the relaxation processes evident in the spectra were analysed using the stochastic model of Blume and Tjon with electronic relaxation occurring for Fe<sup>2+</sup> in the three-dimensionally ordered chains below T<sub>N1</sub> and magnetic field reversal, attributed to solitons, in the one-dimensionally ordered chains in the partially disordered phase. Models developed for CsCo<sub>0.99</sub>Fe<sub>0.01</sub>Cl<sub>3</sub> were extended to include relaxation involving all the Fe<sup>2+</sup> occupied electronic levels below T<sub>N1</sub> (i.e. the three lowest levels) and to allow both electronic and soliton relaxation to occur in the one-dimensionally ordered chains. The data for NH<sub>4</sub>Co<sub>0.994</sub>Fe<sub>0.006</sub>Cl<sub>3</sub> and previous data for CsCo<sub>0.99</sub>Fe<sub>0.01</sub>Cl<sub>3</sub> were both analysed with these extended models. Relaxation rates were lower than those predicted theoretically for pure CsCoCl<sub>3</sub>. This may be due to the presence of iron in the cobalt chains changing the soliton dynamics.
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