Crystals (Aug 2019)

Field-Induced Magnetic Phase Transitions and Rich Phase Diagram of HoMnO<sub>3</sub> Single Crystal

  • Chao Dong,
  • Rui Chen,
  • Yongjie Liu,
  • Congbin Liu,
  • Haipeng Zhu,
  • Jiezun Ke,
  • Wanxin Liu,
  • Ming Yang,
  • Junfeng Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst9080419
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 8
p. 419

Abstract

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An extensive magnetization study in pulsed fields up to 62 T and at temperatures down to ~0.7 K has been performed on the single crystals of hexagonal manganite HoMnO3. For magnetic fields (H) applied along the c-axis, successive magnetic transitions below 10 T and a step-like transition at ~41 T are observed. The phase diagram for H//c is very complex and new phase boundaries are explored below 6 K. This phase diagram is compared with the early results derived from dielectric constant and neutron scattering measurements. For H//a, two magnetic transitions are found below 3 T dome-shaped and the phase diagram is reported for the first time. The variety of magnetic symmetries of the field-induced magnetic phases is discussed.

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