Journal Article

IMPULSE-2025-00011

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Säubert, S. (Corresponding author) ; Franz, C.MLZ* ; Jochum, J. K.MLZ* ; Benka, G. ; Bauer, A.MLZ* ; Shapiro, S. M. ; Boeni, P.MLZ* ; Pfleiderer, C.MLZ*

2024
Inst. Woodbury, NY

Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.110.094422

Abstract: In the iron–chromium system, Fe𝑥⁢Cr1−𝑥, a wide dome of spin-glass behavior emerges when the ferromagnetism of iron is suppressed and the antiferromagnetism of chromium emerges as a function of increasing iron content 𝑥. As both, the high-temperature state and the characteristic cluster size vary as a function of 𝑥, different regimes of spin-glass behavior may be compared in a single, isostructural material system. Here, we report a study of the spin dynamics across the freezing process into the spin-glass state for different iron concentrations (𝑥=0.145, 0.175, 0.21) using modulation of intensity with zero effort (MIEZE) spectroscopy. In the parameter range studied, the relaxation process observed experimentally may be described well in terms of a stretched exponential. In the reentrant cluster-glass regime, 𝑥=0.145, this behavior persists up to high temperatures. In comparison, in the superparamagnetic regime, 𝑥=0.175 and 𝑥=0.21, a single relaxation time at elevated temperatures is observed. For all samples studied, the spin relaxation exhibits a momentum dependence consistent with a power law, providing evidence of a dispersive character of the spin relaxation.

Keyword(s): Magnetic Materials (1st) ; Magnetism (2nd)

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. RESEDA (RESEDA)

Experiment(s):

1. RESEDA: Resonance spin echo spectrometer (NL5S)

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