signature=d7536d53fe66d6570a9aa9eb510e4f59,Magnetoelastic coupling in paramagnetic dysprosium

摘要：

The dependence of the elastic constants c11and c33on temperature and applied magnetic field has been measured for single‐crystal dysprosium in its paramagnetic phase, in an effort to determine certain magnetoelastic coupling constants. This work was motivated by a theoretical treatment of magnetoelastic phenomena of Southern and Goodings. Similar measurements for the case of terbium have been reported by Salamaetal, but the present work includes magnetostrictive corrections neglected by these authors. The values obtained for the magnetoelastic coupling constants of dysprosium, following the theory of Southern and Goodings, are considerably larger than expected; those estimated from the static magnetostriction results of Clarketalare smaller by a factor of about 20. A possible reason for this large difference between the statically and dynamically determined values for the magnetoelastic coupling constants may lie in the assumption by Southern and Goodings that the principal magnetoelastic contribution to the elastic constants arises from the inclusion of the nonlinear terms in the conventional definition of the finite strain tensor in the lowest order terms of the magnetoelastic Hamiltonian.

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