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The magnetostriction of KDy(WO4)2 single crystals is measured in an external magnetic field at temperatures below the temperature of a structural phase transition of the Jahn-Teller type. A steplike irreversible variation in the elastic strain is observed to occur with an increase in the magnetic field applied along the a or b axis of the monoclinic cell of the crystal. The residual change in the strain is retained after changing the sign of the magnetic field. The return to the initial state characterized by field-induced jumps in the strain is possible only after thermal cycling well above the structural phase transition temperature. The theory of this phenomenon is developed using a phenomenologically derived thermodynamic potential of the elastic sub-system that takes into account the crystal symmetry and the field renormalization of the elastic moduli. The jumplike transitions are interpreted as being due to the magnetic softening of the elastic moduli in the vicinity of the structural phase transition temperature.
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Original Russian Text © I.B. Krynetskiĭ, A.F. Popkov, A.I. Popov, M.T. Borowiec, A. Nabiałek, T. Zayarnyuk, H. Szymczak, 2006, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2006, Vol. 48, No. 8, pp. 1467–1473.
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Krynetskiĭ, I.B., Popkov, A.F., Popov, A.I. et al. First-order phase transition in potassium dysprosium tungstate induced by the field renormalization and softening of the elastic moduli in the vicinity of a structural Jahn-Teller-type transition. Phys. Solid State 48, 1553–1558 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106378340608021X
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