High-field soft-x-ray dichroism of a hard ferrimagnet with easy-plane anisotropy

Sh Yamamoto, D. I. Gorbunov, I. F. Diaz-Ortega, A. Miyata, T. Kihara, Y. Kotani, T. Nakamura, N. V. Mushnikov, A. V. Andreev, H. Nojiri, J. Wosnitza

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Abstract

We performed soft x-ray spectroscopic studies of the ferrimagnet TbFe5Al7 with strong easy-plane anisotropy in pulsed magnetic fields up to 29 T along with bulk magnetization and magnetostriction measurements. We observed pronounced amplitude changes of x-ray magnetic circular dichroism and x-ray absorption spectra at the field-induced magnetic transition. This microscopically evidences the simultaneous rotation of the Tb 4f and Fe 3d magnetic moments from a collinear ferrimagnetic order along the [100] axis to a state with the moments close to [010], the other easy-axis direction of the tetragonal lattice in magnetic fields applied along the [100] axis. We determined the magnetic-anisotropy constant of TbFe5Al7 by simulating the high-field macro- and microscopic magnetization process using a two-sublattice model.

Original languageEnglish
Article number064405
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume104
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021 Aug 1

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