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Phys. Rev. B 40, 7395–7398 (1989)

Observation of a pressure-induced collapse of the Fe magnetic moment in the strong itinerant ferromagnet Fe72Pt28

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M. M. Abd-Elmeguid and H. Micklitz
Experimentalphysik IV, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitatsstrasse 150, Postfach 102148, D-4630 Bochum, Federal Republic of Germany

Received 12 June 1989; published in the issue dated 1 October 1989

We observe a pressure-induced magnetic collapse from a ferromagnetic [high-moment, (HM)] state to a low-moment (LM) magnetic state in the strong itinerant ferromagnet Fe72Pt28 (ordered and disordered phases). Such an existence of energetically closely lying HM and LM states demonstrates a unique physical picture of ferromagnetism in 3d magnetic systems that exhibit anomalously large magnetovolume effects. We further show that atomic ordering in Fe72Pt28 stabilizes the ferromagnetic ground state against pressure and modifies the spin correlations of the pressure-induced LM magnetic ground state.

© 1989 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.40.7395
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.40.7395
PACS:
75.30.Kz, 62.50.+p, 76.80.+y