Magnetic Specific Heat Study of the Competition between Ferro- and Antiferromagnetic Spin-Spin exchange Interactions in PbSnMnTe |
| P. Łazarczyk, A. Jędrzejczak, T. Story, M. Arciszewska and R.R. Gałązka Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland |
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| Magnetic contribution to the specific heat, magnetic susceptibility and Hall effect are experimentally studied in Pb1-x-ySnyMnxTe semimagnetic semiconductors with y=0.72 and x=0.08 and with different carrier concentrations 1020 ≤ p ≤ 1021 cm-3. The ferromagnetism observed in crystals with p ≥ 3×1020 cm-3 breaks down with a decreasing concentration of carriers due to an increasing competition between Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida and superexchange interactions. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.90.891 PACS numbers: 75.50.Pp, 75.50.Lk |