Magnetic and Thermal Properties of Chromic Methylamine Alum Below 1°K

Hudson, R. P.; McLane, C. K.

doi:10.1103/physrev.95.932

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“…It should be mentioned, however, that very small hysteresis effects have been observed in this salt 19 [as in most salts used in magnetic cooling], although at a temperature lower by a factor three than the lowest temperature of the present measurements, and by a factor fifty lower than the highest temperature. No definite explanation seems to have been put forward explicitly to account for the hysteresis, but it seems likely that one could be found along the lines proposed by Neel 20 in which the antiferromagnetic domain walls, which possess a net moment, are responsible.…”

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Spin-Spin Relaxation at Very Low Temperatures in Chromic Methylammonium Alum

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Hudson

1956

Phys. Rev.

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We have measured the absorption due to spin-spin relaxation in chromic methylammonium alum at frequencies from 0.1 to 10 Mc/sec and at temperatures from 0.06° to 1°K. At 1°K the spin-spin relaxation time, r«, is found to be 4.2 X10 -10 sec and to be decreasing slowly with increasing temperature. Below 1°K., T S increases rapidly. The absorption of energy is found to be proportional to the square of the frequency, v, at the higher temperatures, but varies less rapidly at lower temperatures, being proportional to v lM at 0.06°K. The results are analyzed in terms of Broer's theory of spin-spin relaxation, and, not surprisingly, the theory is found to need refinement in order to be applicable at temperatures where Curie's law is not obeyed. It is concluded that measurements of this type, which give essentially the same kind of information as is obtained from resonance line shapes, should be able to throw light upon the behavior of substances near their antiferromagnetic transition points.

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