Abstract
A large negative magnetoresistance (MR) sharply peaked at the first-order Verwey transition temperature K has been measured in a synthetic single crystal of magnetite , . At T the MR extremum exhibited a peak value of -17% and a full width at half maximum of 0.53±0.08 K. At the lower and higher ends of the measurement interval 114-126 K encompassing , negative MR values of 3% and 0.5%, respectively, were obtained at 7.7 T. In applied magnetic fields up to 7.7 T the field-dependent discontinuous entropy change at , , decreases linearly with respect to the zero-field value , according to . At , the associated discontinuous change of the average magnetic moment obtained from the MR data was of the order of of . This is concordant with the corresponding value obtained in previous magnetization studies.
- Received 17 October 1995
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.53.15518
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