Abstract

The Tm1−x TbxCo2 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) system was studied by measuring the magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistance, and neutron diffraction. In the compounds with 0 < x ≤ 0.15, an inhomogeneous magnetic state characterized by the existence of large regions (up to 100 A in size) with short-range ferrimagnetic order was found to occur. The maximum of the residual electrical resistance observed in the compound with x = 0.1 at the magnetic ordering temperature was established to be due to the scattering of conduction electrons by localized spin fluctuations associated with f-d exchange fluctuations caused by the substitution of terbium for thulium. The increase in the terbium concentration to x ≥ 0.15 leads to a sharp increase in the Co sublattice magnetization and the establishment of a long-range ferromagnetic order, which indicates a concentration metamagnetic transition in the band subsystem.

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