Metals spin fluctuations

However, no fingerprint such as a final state multiplet structure, as expected for fully localized 5 f electron and found in Am metal, is observed. The localization of 5 f-states is only weak (band-narrowing and widthdrawal from hybridization) in 6-Pu. This in fact is also consistent with the absence of a magnetic moment formation in 6-Pu (rather, a spin-fluctuation regime is observed ). 

According to the spin fluctuations theory, the Curie temperature of the band ferromagnets is inversely proportional to the density of states in the subbands near the Fermi level, NT(Ef) and Nl(E ). The increase of the lattice parameters after the hydrogen atoms incorporation to the lattice induces the decrease of the degree of wave-function hybridization between the 3r/-electrons of Fe atoms and 5r/-electrons of rare-earth metal atoms. This in turn entails the decrease of density of states in both zones NT(Ef) and Ni(EF). 

The magnetic properties were studied in the temperature range of 2-1100 K (Hiebl et al. 1987). The compounds in which the transition-metal component is from the same column of the Periodic Table display a similar behaviour. A temperature-independent exchange-enhanced susceptibility was observed for T = Fe, Ru, and Os. In the case of Co, Rh, and Ir, the molar susceptibility is somewhat lower, but a broad maximum in the temperature dependence of x around 600 K, observed in all three compounds, is reminiscent of spin fluctuators. Antiferromagnetic ordering, indicated for T = Ni, Pd, and Pt by sharp cusps in the x versus T curves, was confirmed by the observation of linear magnetization curves at low temperatures. MCW behaviour is found above the antiferromagnetic transition. 

The critical pressure, at which superconductivity begins (i.e. 7, = OK), is consistent with the Zspi values for these three metals. That is, the Pc of lutetium and yttrium are about the same, but significantly lower than that of scandium (fig. 12a), and 2jpj for yttrium and lutetium are nearly the same and about 3 to 4 times lower than 2spi for scandium. This supports the above analysis that the absence of superconductivity in lutetium, scandium and yttrium is due to spin fluctuations in these metals. 

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