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AGjDPG: Arbeitsgruppe junge DPG
AGjDPG 3: PhD symposium of the Magnetism Division and the AGjDPG 2015: Quantum Phase Transitions: Emergent phenomena beyond elementary excitations
AGjDPG 3.16: Poster
Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 16:15–16:30, EB 301
Tuning ZrFe4Si2 by Ge substitution: confirming the proximity to a magnetic quantum critical point — •Katharina Weber1,2, Nandang Mufti1, Til Goltz2, Theo Woike3, Hans-Henning Klauß2, Christoph Bergmann1, Helge Rosner1, and Christoph Geibel1 — 1Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany — 2Institute of Solid State Physics, TU Dresden, Germany — 3Institute for Structural Physics, TU Dresden, Germany
Magnetic systems with reduced dimensionality or frustration are attracting strong interest because these features lead to an increase of quantum fluctuations which often results in unusual, very interesting properties. Our previous studies evidence the AFe4X2 family (A = Y, Lu, Zr and X = Ge, Si) to cover the whole regime from frustrated antiferromagnetic (AFM) order up to the quantum critical point (QCP) separating the frustrated AFM ground state from the paramagnetic ground state. ZrFe4Si2 showed evidence for an unusual type of weak magnetic order and was therefore suspected to be near the QCP. In order to get a deeper insight into its ground state, we performed a detailed study of Ge substituted ZrFe4Si2, where Ge is suspected to stabilize the magnetic state because of a negative chemical pressure effect. We synthesized polycrystalline samples of ZrFe4(Si1−xGex)2 with x=2 % to 50 % and investigated their magnetic, thermodynamic, structural and transport properties. As expected with increasing Ge content the magnetic state is stabilized towards a well defined AFM order at high Ge content. This confirms the near-by QCP in ZrFe4Si2.