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Magnetic properties of HoFe3(BO3)4

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The magnetic properties of an antiferromagnet with trigonal symmetry, namely, HoFe3(BO3)4, have been investigated theoretically. The calculations have been performed in the molecular field approximation and in the framework of the crystal field model for the rare-earth subsystem. Extensive experimental data on the magnetic properties of HoFe3(BO3)4 have been interpreted and good agreement between theory and experiment has been achieved using the obtained theoretical dependences. The spontaneous spin-reorientation transition and the spin-reorientation transition induced by a magnetic field B ‖ a from the easy-axis to easy-plane state, as well as the spin-flop transition in a magnetic field B ‖ c, have been described. It has been shown that the spontaneous spin-reorientation transition is a magnetic analog of the Jahn-Teller effect. The temperature dependences of the initial magnetic susceptibility at temperatures ranging from 2 to 300 K, the nonlinear curves of magnetization for B ‖ c and B ⊥ c in a magnetic field up to 1.2 T (which indicate the occurrence of first-order phase transitions), and their evolution with variations in the temperature have been described, as well as the temperature and field dependences of the magnetization in a magnetic field up to 9 T. The parameters of the trigonal crystal field for the rare-earth ion Ho3+ and the parameters of the Fe-Fe and Ho-Fe exchange interactions have been determined in the course of interpretation of the experimental data.

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Demidov, D.V. Volkov, 2011, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2011, Vol. 53, No. 5, pp. 925–935.

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Demidov, A.A., Volkov, D.V. Magnetic properties of HoFe3(BO3)4 . Phys. Solid State 53, 985–996 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783411050088

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