Abstract
The present understanding of magnetic properties of quasicrystals (QCs) is reviewed. In AlMn and AlPdMn QCs, only a few Mn atoms, with concentrations from a few per cent down to 10−4 carry a localized magnetic moment. These moments are coupled via RKKY interactions, leading to a canonical spin-glass ordering at low temperature. They also exhibit a Kondo effect and AlPdMn QCs turned out to be a model system for studying experimentally the competition between Kondo and RKKY interactions in the absence of long-range magnetic ordering. Besides, the presence of localized moments has very unusual consequences for the electronic transport in AlPdMn QCs. In RMgZn and RMgCd QCs (R is a magnetic rare earth), with R concentration around 9%, a spin-glass like freezing is observed. However the short-range antiferromagnetic correlations detected above the freezing temperature are unusual and are certainly influenced by the quasiperiodicity.
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