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Enhanced paramagnetism of the 4d itinerant electrons in the rhodium oxide perovskite SrRhO3

09/2001; DOI:doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.64.224424
Source: arXiv

ABSTRACT Polycrystalline rhodium(IV) oxide perovskite SrRhO3 was obtained by high-pressure synthesis techniques, followed by measurements of the magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistivity, and specific heat. The title compound has five 4d-electrons per perovskite unit and shows Fermi-liquid behavior in its electrical resistivity. The magnetic susceptibility is large [chi(300K) \~1.1*10^{-3} emu/mol-Rh] and proportional to 1/T^2 (< 380 K), while there is no magnetic long-range order above 1.8 K. The specific heat measurements indicate a probable magnetic contribution below ~ 15 K, which is not predicted by the self-consistent renormalization theory of spin fluctuations for both antiferro- and ferromagnetic 3D nearly-ordered metals. Comment: To be published in PRB

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Keywords

Fermi-liquid behavior
 
ferromagnetic 3D nearly-ordered metals
 
fluctuations
 
high-pressure synthesis techniques
 
K
 
perovskite unit
 
probable magnetic contribution
 
self-consistent renormalization theory
 
specific heat
 
specific heat measurements
 
title compound
 

K. Yamaura