Magnetic properties of an amorphous antiferromagnet
作者:
R. E. Walstedt,
R. B. Kummer,
S. Geschwind,
V. Narayanamurti,
G. E. Devlin,
期刊:
Journal of Applied Physics
(AIP Available online 1979)
卷期:
Volume 50,
issue B3
页码: 1700-1705
ISSN:0021-8979
年代: 1979
DOI:10.1063/1.327241
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
We present measurements and a theoretical analysis of the magnetic properties of dilute neutral (In) donors in CdS, which we demonstrate to be a well‐characterized example of an amorphous antiferromagnet with spins S=1/2. High‐quality data for relative values of sample magnetization have been obtained by the Faraday rotation method at temperatures ranging from 55 mK to 2.5 K and fields up to 15 kG. Data are given for crystals with neutral donor concentrations of 8⋅1016/cm3and 2.1⋅1017/cm3. The susceptibility, &khgr;, increases monotonically with decreasing T with no evidence of ordering, even though the median exchange coupling is ∼7 K. A model Hamiltonian is derived by scaling calculations of direct exchange for the H2molecule to the Bohr radius and effective Rydberg of the donor wave functions. A sample of such a Hamiltonian is generated in a computer simulation and solved approximately by dividing the system into clusters (and isolated spins) according to a coupling threshold and solving the cluster Hamiltonians exactly. Inter‐cluster interactions are included in a molecular field approximation. Excellent agreement with experiment is found, and &khgr; is shown to be dominated by clusters, both even and odd, at all temperatures.
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