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Results on electrical resistivity, magnetoresistance, magnetic Results on electrical resistivity, magnetoresistance, magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity and Gd Mossbauer measurements on a Gd-based intermetallic compound,…
The behaviour of electrical resistivity ($\rho$) and magnetoresistance in the vicinity of respective magnetic ordering temperatures in a number of Gd alloys is reported. In some compounds, e.g., GdNi_2Sn_2 and GdPt_2Ge_2, there is an…
The increase in the resistivity with decreasing temperature followed by a drop by more than one order of magnitude is observed on the metallic side near the zero-magnetic-field metal-insulator transition in a strongly interacting…
The Edelstein effect occurring in systems with broken inversion symmetry generates a spin polarization when an electric field is applied, which is most advantageous in spintronics applications. Unfortunately, it became apparent that this…
According to earlier first-principles calculations, the spin-disorder contribution to the resistivity of rare-earth metals in the paramagnetic state is strongly underestimated if Matthiessen's rule is assumed to hold. To understand this…
We present here, the effect of microstructure on the magnetic, electrical and thermal properties of (V$_{0.60}$Ti$_{0.40}$)-Gd alloys. The gadolinium is found to be immiscible and precipitates with a size $<$1.2~$\mu$m in the…
We consider the effect of electron-electron interaction on the density of states of disordered paramagnetic conductor in the presence of spin accumulation and magnetic field. We show that interaction correction to electron density of states…
We explain a profound complexity of magnetic interactions of some technologically relevant gadolinium intermetallics using an ab-initio electronic structure theory which includes disordered local moments and strong $f$-electron…
We report the results of magnetic, heat-capacity, electrical and magnetoresistance measurements on Ho4RhAl and Er4RhAl, characterized by 3 sites for rare-earths (R). Antiferromagnetic ordering sets in at (T_N =) about 8.8 and 4.0 K…
In $d$-electron systems, there can also be intricate interplay between Kondo coupling and magnetic interactions as that in $f$-electron systems, but the underlying mechanism remains elusive. Here, using inelastic neutron scattering, we…
In this paper, we analyze several experiments that address the effects of electron-electron interactions in 2D electron (hole) systems in the regime of low carrier density. The interaction effects result in renormalization of the effective…
The "s-f model", also known as the ferromagnetic Kondo lattice, contains a description of band electrons coupled to localized spins which is an appropriate description of the magnetic part of the low-energy physics of Gd metal. Here the…
New mechanism of magnetoresistivity in itinerant metamagnets with a structural disorder is introduced basing on analysis of experimental results on magnetoresistivity, susceptibility, and magnetization of structurally disordered alloys…
We synthesized a series of GdFe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$AsO polycrystalline samples ($0 \leq x \leq 1$) by using a solid state reaction method and present a systematic study on the physical properties by means of electrical resistivity $\rho(T)$,…
A reentrant behavior of temperature dependent magnetic ac-susceptibility (or excess susceptibility(ES)) at lower temperature is observed in a composite made of superconductor $La_{1.85}Sr_{0.15}CuO_4$ (LCu) and an insulating paramagnetic…
We find that at intermediate temperatures, the metallic temperature dependence of the conductivity \sigma(T) of 2D electrons in silicon is described well by a recent interaction-based theory of Zala et al. (Phys. Rev. B 64, 214204 (2001)).…
The book includes all main physical properties of d- and f-transition-metal systems and corresponding theoretical concepts. Especial attention is paid to the theory of magnetism and transport phenomena. Some examples of non-traditional…
We investigate temperature dependent electronic correlation effects in the conduction bands of Gadolinium Nitride (GdN) based on the combination of many body analysis of the multi-band Kondo lattice model and the first principles TB-LMTO…
We report the response of electrical resistivity $\rho$ to the application of magnetic fields (H) up to 140 kOe in the temperature interval 1.8-300 K for the compound, Gd7Rh3, ordering antiferromagnetically below 150 K. We find that there…
Using {\it ab initio} band structure calculations and symmetry arguments, we show that the magnetic property of Ga$_{1-x}$Gd$_x$N is drastically different from TM-doped GaN. The coupling between Gd atoms in the alloy is antiferromagnetic,…