Single-crystal growth and magnetic anisotropy in PrFe2Ga8

Cuixiang Wang; Xingyu Wang; Ke Jia; Le Wang; Dayu Yan; Hai L Feng; Shiliang Li; Youguo Shi

doi:10.1088/1361-648X/ac4e45

Single-crystal growth and magnetic anisotropy in PrFe₂Ga₈

J Phys Condens Matter. 2022 Feb 23;34(16). doi: 10.1088/1361-648X/ac4e45.

Authors

Cuixiang Wang^{1

2

3}, Xingyu Wang^{1

3}, Ke Jia^{1

2

3}, Le Wang⁴, Dayu Yan¹, Hai L Feng^{1

5}, Shiliang Li^{1

2}, Youguo Shi^{1

2

3

5}

Affiliations

¹ Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China.
² Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China.
³ School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China.
⁴ Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering and Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, People's Republic of China.
⁵ Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, People's Republic of China.

PMID: 35073531
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ac4e45

Abstract

Single crystals of PrFe₂Ga₈were successfully grown by using Ga self-flux. PrFe₂Ga₈crystallizes in the CaCo₂Al₈-type orthorhombic structure with the space groupPbam(no. 55). By combining the results from the magnetic-susceptibility, specific-heat, and resistivity measurements, we show that PrFe₂Ga₈exhibits a magnetic order at 14 K. ForH//c, the antiferromagnetic order can be suppressed by magnetic fields. However, the magnetic order is robust against magnetic fields forH⊥c. Our results provide basic physical properties of PrFe₂Ga₈and will help to further understand the magnetism in this system.

Keywords: PrFe2Ga8; crystal growth; magnetic anisotropic.