Are VPd₃ and NbPd₃ itinerant ferromagnets?

Authors

W.L. Burmester, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
David J. Sellmyer, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

March 1982

Comments

Published by American Institute of Physics. J. Applied Physics 53, 2024 (1982). ©1982 American Institute of Physics. Permission to use. http://jap.aip.org/jap/.

Abstract

Low-field magnetic susceptibility and high-field magnetization results are reported for polycrystalline samples of NbPd₃, VPd₃, and iron doped VPd₃. Recent self-consistent, spin-polarized band calculations have predicted that the pure compounds are itinerant ferromagnets. Down to 1.6 K there is no evidence for either magnetic ordering or exchange enhancement in VPd₃ and NbPd₃. The Fe-doped alloys exhibit transitions at low temperatures to a magnetic cluster-glass state. Journal of Applied Physics is copyrighted by The American Institute of Physics.