Doping phase diagrams of the heavy fermions Ce2MIn8 (M = Rh, IR) / Efeitos da substituição quimica nos diagramas de fases dos fermions pesados Ce2MIn8 (M = Rh e Ir)

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2009

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This thesis describes the investigation of the physical properties of the (Cd, Sn, Ga)-doped Ce2MIn8 (M = Rh, Ir) intermetallic compounds. Temperature dependent magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity and electrical resistivity measurements were performed to characterize the macroscopic properties of the synthesized compounds. X-ray powder diffraction were used to determine their phase purity and crystal structure and X-ray and neutron magnetic scattering techniques were used to study the microscopic magnetic structure in low temperature. The Ce2MIn8 (M = Rh, Ir) compounds belong to the family of the heavy-fermions Ce-based compounds CenMIn3n+2 (M = Co, Rh, Ir; n = 1, 2), where the occurrence of unconventional superconductivity (USC) in many of its members has been motivating intense work in past few years. In particular these compounds present a wide range of interesting properties as Kondo effect, USC, magnetism, non Fermi liquid and Fermi liquid behavior and the occurrence of quantum critical points. Particularly interesting is the tunability of their ground state by pressure and chemical doping that revealed very interesting and rich phase diagrams with properties that are unprecedented for this class of compounds. Indeed the study of the 218 parent compounds is a great opportunity to further study the relationship between magnetism, USC and crystal structure in this family. We report in this work five unpublished phase diagrams of this family: Ce2RhIn8-xCdx, Ce2IrIn8-xCdx, Ce2Rh0.5Ir0.5 In8-xCdx, Ce2RhIn8-xSnx e Ce2RhIn8-xGax. Our results revealed that Cd-doping Ce2MIn8 enhances the antiferromagnetic ordering temperature as a function of the Cd concentration. The results suggest that the Cd-doping in these compounds is inducing an electronic tuning by locally decreasing the Ce 3+ density of states and this is favoring the AFM ordering according com a Doniach-like scenario. However the evolution of the maximum in the resistivity as a function of the Cd concentration and the small variation of the magnetic moment orientation of the doped compounds suggest that Cd-doping is also changing the crystal field (CEF) parameters in these compounds. The magnetic structure studied by X-ray and neutron magnetic scattering showed the Cd-doped samples present just below TN a commensurate antiferromagnetic structure with a propagation vector (½ ½ 0). The magnetic structure determination indicates that the magnetic moment orientation of the Cd doped samples tend going to the ab-plane. The Sn chemical substitution in Ce2MI n8 (M = Rh, Ir) showed Sn-doping is decreasing the magnetic order by favoring the Kondo effect. This is the opposite of the Cd-doping effect because Sn is now increasing the local density of states of the Ce3+ions. As Sn-doping drives 4f to a more itinerant character the CEF effect are less important for this compounds. On the other hand, the Ga-doped Ce2RhI n8 similarly show a decreasing of the magnetic order due to the enhancement of the Kondo effect by chemical pressure. However the unexpected evolution of the maximum in the resistivity as a function of the Ga suggests in this dopant is changing the crystal field is still an important effect in this compound. Finally we present the 4f magnetism evolution studies on the series of the Ga-based R2CoGa8 for R = Gd ¿ Tm compounds, where one can follow the evolution of the magnetism and the CEF parameters without the presence of the Kondo effect

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fermions pesados campos cristalinos crystalline fields antiferromagnetismo intermetallic compounds compostos intermetalicos heavy fermions supercondutividade antiferromagnetism superconductivity

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