Magnetic properties of single crystalline HoTe3
Abstract
Charge density waves (CDWs) are in a broken ground state, driven by electronic instabilities in a low-dimensional system with a highly anisotropic electronic structure. As one of the CDW materials, the RTe3 (R = rare earth elements) compound is a quasi-two-dimensional system. Even if the magnetic properties of RTe3 in light rare earth elements have been reported, magnetic and electronic information in heavy rare earth elements remains unknown. In this study, the magnetic properties of HoTe3 were investigated and two ferromagnetic transitions were discovered along a direction perpendicular to the stacking axis while RTe3. An antiferromagnetic transition temperature was found at TN = 4.5 K for H // b and two ferromagnetic transitions were found at Tc 1 = 3.5 K and Tc 2 = 4.5 K for H⊥ b.
- Publication:
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APS March Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016APS..MARC17003S