Forced magnetostrictions and magnetizations of Ni2+xMnGa1-x at its curie temperature

Takuo Sakon, Yuhi Hayashi, Dexin Li, Fuminori Honda, Gendo Oomi, Yasuo Narumi, Masayuki Hagiwara, Takeshi Kanomata, Tetsujiro Eto

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Abstract

Experimental investigations into the field dependence of magnetization and the relationship between magnetization and magnetostriction in Ni2+xMnGa1-x (x = 0.00, 0.02, 0.04) alloy ferromagnets were performed following the self-consistent renormalization (SCR) spin fluctuation theory of itinerant ferromagnetism. In this study, we investigated the magnetization of and magnetostriction on Ni2+xMnGa1-x (x = 0.02, 0.04) to check whether these relations held when the ratio of Ni to Ga and, the valence electron concentration per atom, e/a were varied. When the ratio of Ni to Ga was varied, e/a increased with increasing x. The magnetization results for x = 0.02 (e/a = 7.535) and 0.04 (e/a = 7.570) suggest that the critical index δ of H ∝ Mδ is around 5.0 at the Curie temperature TC, which is the critical temperature of the ferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition. This result confirms Takahashi's spin fluctuation theory and the experimental results of Ni2MnGa. The spontaneous magnetization pS slightly decreased with increasing x. For x = 0.00, the spin fluctuation parameter in k-space (momentum space; TA) and that in energy space (T0) were obtained. The relationship between peff/pS and TC/T0 can also be explained by Takahashi's theory, where peff indicates the effective magnetic moments. We created a generalized Rhodes-Wohlfarth plot of peff/pS versus TC/T0 for other ferromagnets. The plot indicates that the relationship between peff/pS and T0/TC follows Takahashi's theory. We also measured the magnetostriction for Ni2+xMnGa1-x (x = 0.02, 0.04). As a result, at TC, the plot of the magnetostriction (ΔL/L) versus M4 shows proportionality and crosses the origin. These magnetization and magnetostriction results were analyzed in terms of Takahashi's SCR spin fluctuation theory. We investigated the magnetostriction at the premartensite phase, which is the precursor state to the martensitic transition. In Ni2MnGa system alloys, the maximum value of magnetostriction is almost proportional to the e/a.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2115
JournalMaterials
Volume11
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018 Oct 28

Keywords

  • Ferromagnetic Heusler alloy
  • Itinerant electron magnetism
  • Magnetization
  • Magnetostriction
  • Premartensite phase

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