Large crystalline fields and anisotropic vibrational modes of 151Eu2+ in metallic EuRu2Ge2

I. Nowik*, I. Felner

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Abstract

Mössbauer studies of 151Eu2+ in EuRu2Ge2 at temperatures 4.1 to 600 K reveal the largest crystalline electric field gradient ever observed in a metallic rare earth compound, A2〈r2〉=425 K. The associated large quadropole interaction, eqQ=-440Mc/s, enabled a detailed study of the anisotropy in recoil free fraction, Goldanskii-Karyagin effect. While at 85 K the recoil free fractions along the crystallographic c-axis and perpendicular to it are 0.95 and 0.74, at 570 K they are 0.64 and 0.10, respectively. Within a Debye model this corresponds to Debye temperatures of θ|=450 K and θ=180 K. This is the first observation of an anisotropic recoil free fraction in a metallic rare earth compound.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)433-435
Number of pages3
JournalPhysica B: Physics of Condensed Matter & C: Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics, Optics
Volume130
Issue number1-3
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1985

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