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High-field moment polarization in the itinerant ferromagnet URhSi

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2019-09-16 v2

Abstract

We report a high-magnetic-field study of the itinerant ferromagnet URhSi. Magnetization and electrical resistivity were measured under magnetic fields μ0H\mu_0H up to 58~T applied along the directions a\mathbf{a}, b\mathbf{b}, and c\mathbf{c} of the orthorhombic structure and temperatures TT ranging from 1.5 to 50 K. For Hb\mathbf{H}\parallel\mathbf{b}, pseudo-metamagnetism at μ0Hm3040\mu_0H_m\simeq30-40~T is associated with a broad step in the magnetization and a maximum in the resistivity. The properties of URhSi are discussed and compared with those of the isostructural superconducting ferromagnets URhGe and UCoGe and of the superconducting paramagnet UTe2_2.

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@article{arxiv.1909.01810,
  title  = {High-field moment polarization in the itinerant ferromagnet URhSi},
  author = {W. Knafo and T. D. Matsuda and F. Hardy and D. Aoki and J. Flouquet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.01810},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 table, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review B