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Organo-metallic compounds Cu( en )(H 2 O) 2 SO 4 ( en =C 2 H 8 N 2 ) and Cu( tn )Cl 2 ( tn =C 3 H 10 N 2 ) representing S =1/2 quasi-two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnets with an effective intra-layer exchange coupling J/ k B ≈3 K, have been examined by specific heat measurements at temperatures down to nominally 50 mK and magnetic fields up to 14 T. A comparative analysis of magnetic specific heat in zero magnetic field revealed nearly identical contribution of short-range magnetic correlations and significant differences were observed at lowest temperatures. A phase transition to long-range order was observed in Cu( en )(H 2 O) 2 SO 4 at T C =0.9 K while hidden in Cu( tn )Cl 2 . A response of both compounds to the application of magnetic field has rather universal features characteristic for a field-induced Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition theoretically predicted for ideal two-dimensional magnets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: We have studied by the electron-spin resonance (ESR) and static magnetic field techniques, the La2/3Ba1/3MnO3 perovskite, which was previously shown to exhibit a martensitic phase transformation in the vicinity of T s ∼200K [Physical Review B 68, 054109 (2003)], leading to its structural phase-segregated state. Resonant absorptions reveal that in the temperature interval from 100K to 340K the compound represents a mixture of two ferromagnetic phases possessing different magnetizations, in varying proportions depending on the temperature, and a small amount of a paramagnetic phase. The results agree well with the previous neutron diffraction study. Applied in the ESR experiments, magnetic fields (2–6kOe) strongly affect the magnetization curves: even magnetic field as high as 700Oe modifies the anomaly in the phase transformation region and removes the difference between the zero-field cooled and field-cooled magnetization curves, which implies that the difference in the magnetic susceptibility of the coexisting phases is small and the magnetic domain configuration can be easily changed. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: A detailed study of the low-temperature magnetic state and the relaxation in the phase-separated colossal magnetoresistance Nd2/3Ca1/3MnO3 perovskite has been carried out. Clear experimental evidence of the cluster-glass magnetic behavior of this compound has been revealed. Well defined maxima in the in-phase linear ac susceptibility χ′(T) were observed, indicative of the magnetic glass transition at T g ∼60K. Strongly divergent zero-field-cooled and field-cooled static magnetizations and frequency dependent ac susceptibility are evident of the glassy-like magnetic state of the compound at low temperatures. The frequency dependence of the cusp temperature T max of the χ′(T) susceptibility was found to follow the critical slowing down mechanism. The Cole–Cole analysis of the dynamic susceptibility at low temperature has shown extremely broad distribution of relaxation times, indicating that spins are frozen at “macroscopic” time scale. Slow relaxation in the zero-field-cooled magnetization has been experimentally revealed. The obtained results do not agree with a canonical spin-glass state and indicate a cluster glass magnetic state of the compound below T g , associated with its antiferromagnetic–ferromagnetic nano-phase segregated state. It was found that the relaxation mechanisms below the cluster glass freezing temperature T g and above it are strongly different. Magnetic field up to about μ 0 H∼0.4T suppresses the glassy magnetic state of the compound. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The low temperature specific heat and magnetic characteristics of Nd2/3Ca1/3MnO3 perovskite are studied in a wide range of magnetic fields (up to 9T). Temperature dependent specific heat data show a broadened Schottky-like anomaly below 20K caused by splitting of the Nd3+ ions ground-state doublet in the effective molecular field H ex , determined by exchange interaction between Nd and Mn spin systems supplemented by an applied external magnetic field. Existence of the splitting at zero magnetic field and expressed field dependence is the evidence of a strong exchange coupling between Nd and Mn magnetic subsystems. The Nd-ions magnetic ordering leads to an additional contribution to the magnetic moment of the system below 30K, producing anomalies of the magnetic loss and field-cooled and zero-field-cooled magnetizations. The observed broadened Schottky-like anomalies are fitted for each applied magnetic field by the sum of three Schottky functions. Applied magnetic field extends the anomaly region and shifts it to higher temperatures. Splitting of the higher crystal field Kramers doublets gives an additional contribution to the heat capacity in magnetic fields. The ground state doublet g-factors g || and g ⊥ were estimated to be 3.4 and 2.2, respectively, and H ex was estimated to be 9T. The Nd3+ ions magnetic moment estimated from the magnetization data agrees with the value obtained from the specific heat data. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The shifts of the magnetic and charge ordering transition temperatures caused by Nd substitution for Y in Nd2/3Ca1/3MnO3 CMR narrow-band perovskite manganite have been studied. At low temperatures, three different long-range magnetic orderings consistent with a phase separation scenario have been observed in the doped compound (Nd0.9Y0.1)2/3Ca1/3MnO3 by neutron-diffraction study: the antiferromagnetic orderings of PCE and DE types existing below ∼110 and ∼60K, respectively, and the ferromagnetic one of B type existing below ∼42. Magnetic phase transformations temperatures as well as those of charge ordering have been found to be structural-dependent. Y-doping leads to the decrease of the anisotropy of the orthorhombic Pnma crystal lattice b/√2c, which causes a decrease of the indirect exchange parameters in the system and thus a decrease in the magnetic transformation temperatures for 20–30K in the doped compound. Doping leads as well to the higher level of the coherent Jahn–Teller distortions of the MnO6 octahedra in the 200–300K temperature region, which results in the increase of the charge ordering temperature for ∼80K. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]