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We investigated the magnetic phase of the perovskite CaCrO$_3$ by using the muon spin relaxation technique accompanied by susceptibility measurements. A thermal hysteresis loop is identified with a width of about 1 K at the transition…
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We present measurements of the magnetic moment and specific heat of single crystals of the spin-chain insulator, Pr3RuO7. The susceptibility indicates that three-dimensional antiferromagnetic order sets in at TN = 54 K, with spin…
Through powder x-ray diffraction we have investigated the structural behavior of SmVO3, in which orbital and magnetic degrees of freedom are believed to be closely coupled to the crystal lattice. We have found, contrary to previous reports,…
We have performed a muon spin rotation study on polycrystalline samples of electron-doped layered manganites, La$_{2-2x}$Sr$_{1+2x}$Mn$_2$O$_7$ (0.4< x<1), in order to investigate the local magnetic structure and spin dynamics. Our results…
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We report a detailed study of step-like metamagnetic transitions in the magnetization and resistivity of polycrystalline Pr0.5Ca0.5Mn0.95Co0.05O3. The steps have a sudden onset below a critical temperature, are extremely sharp (width < 0.2…
We simulate 2-flavour lattice QCD at finite isospin chemical potential mu_I, for temperatures close to the finite temperature transition from hadronic matter to a quark-gluon plasma. The mu_I dependence of the transition coupling is…
The purpose of the present work is to report studies on structural phase transition for PMN-xPT single crystal, with melt PbTiO3 composition around the MPB (x = 0.35 mol %), using infrared spectroscopy technique. The study was centered on…
Neutron powder diffraction studies of the crystal and magnetic structures of the magnetocaloric compound Mn1.1Fe0.9(P0.8Ge0.2) have been carried out as a function of temperature, applied magnetic field, and pressure. The data reveal that…
In the framework of the multi-source thermal model employing the Tsallis distribution, the transverse momentum distributions of kaon, pion, and (anti -)proton production in U+U collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 193 GeV with varying centrality…
We report studies of polycrystalline samples of the metallic ferromagnet Pr0.5Sr0.5CoO3 through measurements of the magnetization, a.c. magnetic susceptibility, resistivity, and specific heat. We find an unusual anomaly around TA = 120 K,…
UCoGa and URhGa, two isostructural compounds show opposite signs of the initial response of Curie temperature to applied hydrostatic premenssure. To determine the physical origin of this contradiction the magnetization data measured with…
Optical transitions of an Er$_2$O$_3$ film on a Si substrate grown by using a metal-organic chemical vapor deposition technique were investigated in a wide temperature (300 K $\sim$ 5 K) and spectral (500 nm and 850 nm) ranges. Numerous…
Single crystals of EuPtSi$_3$, which crystallize in the BaNiSn$_3$-type crystal structure, have been grown by high temperature solution growth method using molten Sn as the solvent. EuPtSi$_3$ which lacks the inversion symmetry and has only…
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The magnetization of single crystal SrRuO3 is studied as a function of temperature along different crystallographic directions. The magnetocrystalline anisotropy and behavior near the critical transition temperature are analyzed in detail.…