Magnetic and Resonance Properties of the Compound (NH3)2(CH2)3CoCl4 - an Antiferromagnet with the Dzyaloshinskii Interaction

Abstract

The static magnetic and dynamic properties of the compound (NH3)2(CH2)3CoCl4 are investigated in the temperature interval 0.5-50 K. It is shown that at TN =2.05 K this compound undergoes a transition to a magnetically ordered antiferromagnet state. A distinctive feature of this compound is the presence of temperature hysteresis at the transition to the ordered state (corresponding to a first order magnetic phase transition) and of a spontaneous magnetic moment along the x axis. The paramagnetic Curie temperatures are determined. The frequency-field curves of the AFMR spectrum in the xy plane are investigated at a temperature below TN. The main magnetic parameters of the biaxial AFM - the value of the low-frequency gap and the effective magnetic anisotropy field - are determined.