Magnetic glass in shape memory alloy: Ni45Co5Mn38Sn12
Abstract
The first order martensitic transition in the ferromagnetic shape memory alloy Ni45Co5Mn38Sn12 is also a magnetic transition and has a large field induced effect. While cooling in the presence of a field this first order magnetic martensite transition is kinetically arrested. Depending on the cooling field, a fraction of the arrested ferromagnetic austenite phase persists down to the lowest temperature as a magnetic glassy state, similar to the one observed in various intermetallic alloys and in half doped manganites. A detailed investigation of this first order ferromagnetic austenite (FM-A) to low magnetization martensite (LM-M) state transition as a function of temperature and field has been carried out by magnetization measurements. Extensive cooling and heating in unequal field (CHUF) measurements and a novel field cooled protocol for isothermal MH measurements (FC-MH) are utilized to investigate the glass like arrested states and show a reverse martensite transition. Finally, we determine a field-temperature (HT) phase diagram of Ni45Co5Mn38Sn12 from various magnetization measurements which brings out the regions where thermodynamic and metastable states coexist in the HT space, clearly depicting this system as a ‘magnetic glass’.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
- Pub Date:
- September 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0953-8984/24/38/386004
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1206.2024
- Bibcode:
- 2012JPCM...24L6004L
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Materials Science
- E-Print:
- Magnetic field tunes kinetic arrest and CHUF shows devitrification and melting of Magnetic glass