Abstract
Magnetic-susceptibility measurement of a new Laves-phase cubic system, (0.30≤x≤0.65), exhibit very sharp → valence phase transitions at temperatures =40–80 K. A simple valence-fluctuation model predicts first-order phase transitions and agrees with the experimental observations. For the theoretical fit shows that below =46 K, the state of is 190 K above , changing abruptly to -210 K above . The present compounds exhibit the sharpest temperature-dependent valence phase transition in any metallic system.
- Received 13 May 1985
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.33.617
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