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Broken ergodicity, memory effect and rejuvenation in Taylor-phase and decagonal Al3(Mn,Pd,Fe) complex intermetallics
Broken ergodicity, memory effect and rejuvenation in Taylor-phase and decagonal Al3(Mn,Pd,Fe) complex intermetallics
The Taylor-phase complex intermetallic compound T-Al3Mn, its solid solutions with Pd and Fe, T-Al-3(Mn,Pd) and T-Al-3(Mn,Fe), and the related decagonal d-Al-Mn-Fe quasicrystal belong to the class of magnetically frustrated spin systems that exhibit rich out-of-equilibrium spin dynamics in the nonerg...
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Personal Name(s): | Dolinsek, J. |
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Slavonek, J. / Jaglicic, Z. / Heggen, M. / Balanetskyy, S. / Feuerbacher, M. / Urban, K. | |
Contributing Institute: |
Mikrostrukturforschung; IFF-8 JARA-FIT; JARA-FIT |
Published in: | Physical Review B Physical review / B, 77 77 (2008 2008) 6 6, S. 064430 064430 |
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College Park, Md.
APS
2008
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Physical Description: |
064430 |
DOI: |
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.064430 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Grundlagen für zukünftige Informationstechnologien |
Series Title: |
Physical Review B
77 |
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Please use the identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/11080 in citations.
The Taylor-phase complex intermetallic compound T-Al3Mn, its solid solutions with Pd and Fe, T-Al-3(Mn,Pd) and T-Al-3(Mn,Fe), and the related decagonal d-Al-Mn-Fe quasicrystal belong to the class of magnetically frustrated spin systems that exhibit rich out-of-equilibrium spin dynamics in the nonergodic phase below the spin-freezing temperature T-f. Performing large variety of magnetic experiments as a function of temperature, magnetic field, aging time t(w), and different thermal histories, we investigated broken-ergodicity phenomena of (i) a difference in the field-cooled and zero-field-cooled susceptibilities, (ii) the frequency-dependent freezing temperature, T-f(nu), (iii) hysteresis and remanence, (iv) ultraslow decay of the thermoremanent magnetization, (v) the memory effect (a state of the spin system reached upon isothermal aging can be retrieved after a negative temperature cycle), and (vi) "rejuvenation" (small positive temperature cycle within the nonergodic phase erases the effect of previous aging). We show that the phenomena involving isothermal aging periods (the memory effect, rejuvenation, and the ultraslow decay of the thermoremanent magnetization) get simple explanation by considering that during aging under steady external conditions, localized spin regions quasiequilibrate into more stable configurations, so that higher thermal energy is needed to destroy these regions by spin flipping, as compared to the thermal energy required to reverse a frustrated spin in a disordered spin-glass configuration that forms in the case of no aging. Common to all the investigated broken-ergodicity phenomena is the slow approach of a magnetically frustrated spin system toward a global equilibrium, which can never be reached on accessible experimental time scales due to macroscopic equilibration times. |