The spin-glass behavior in the ferromagnetic phase of Tm2Cu2In was investigated by dc-, ac-magnetization, and non-equilibrium dynamics characterizations. Arc-melted polycrystalline compound of Tm2Cu2In crystallizes in Mo2FeB2-type tetragonal structure (space group P4/mbm). The temperature variation dc-magnetization exhibits a ferromagnetic behavior with Curie temperature TC = 32.5 K. The zero-field cooled (ZFC) and field cooled (FC) magnetic curves show a thermomagnetic irreversible behavior below TC. The field dependence of irreversible temperature follows Almeida-Thouless line. The frequency and ac-driven field-dependent anomalies in ac-susceptibility results indicate the existence of spin-glass state in Tm2Cu2In. The time dependence of magnetization further supports the spin-glass behavior observed in Tm2Cu2In. The frequency dependence of the freezing temperature in the real part of ac-susceptibility has been analyzed on the basis power-law divergence and Vogel-Fulcher law. The obtained results revealed that Tm2Cu2In belongs to a ferromagnetic canonical spin-glass class of compounds.
@article{arxiv.2102.08230,
title = {Spin-glass behavior in Shastry-Sutherland lattice of Tm$_\textbf{2}$Cu$_\textbf{2}$In},
author = {Baidyanath Sahu and R. Djoumessi Fobasso and Andre M. Strydom},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.08230},
year = {2021}
}