Abstract
AbstractMeasurements are made on the principal magnetic susceptibilities and anisotropies of praseodymium selenate octahydrate single crystals in the temperature range 90 to 300 K. Although the effective magnetic moment is close to the free ion value, the anisotropy is quite high at room temperature. A least squares fit of the Curie‐Weiss law to the observed average susceptibility yields −36.5 K as the paramagnetic Curie temperature. An analysis of the results with a crystal field (CF) of D4 symmetry, explains the observed results quite well. The CF and the spin‐orbit interaction matrix is block diagonalized in the complete 33 dimensional basis of the 3H term in order to obtain the Stark energies and their eigenstates. Intermediate coupling effects are also considered. The ground state being a singlet, the g‐factors are absent. Some predictions on the electronic heat capacity and the electronic quadrupole splitting are made in the light of the proposed CF.
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