Materials (Dec 2022)

Magnetic Phase Diagram of van der Waals Antiferromagnet TbTe<sub>3</sub>

  • Olga S. Volkova,
  • Abdellali Hadj-Azzem,
  • Gyorgy Remenyi,
  • Jose Emilio Lorenzo,
  • Pierre Monceau,
  • Alexander A. Sinchenko,
  • Alexander N. Vasiliev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15248772
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 24
p. 8772

Abstract

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Terbium tritelluride, TbTe3, orders antiferromagnetically in three steps at TN1 = 6.7 K, TN2 = 5.7 K, and TN3 = 5.4 K, preceded by a correlation hump in magnetic susceptibility at T* ~8 K. Combining thermodynamic, i.e., specific heat Cp and magnetization M, and transport, i.e., resistance R, measurements we established the boundaries of two commensurate and one charge density wave modulated phases in a magnetic field oriented along principal crystallographic axes. Based on these measurements, the magnetic phase diagrams of TbTe3 at H‖a, H‖b and H‖c were constructed.

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