Magnetic and thermodynamic properties of DyFe2Si2 further investigated with crystal-field theory and two-ion model Original Research Article

We report our theoretical studies on the magnetic and thermodynamic properties of DyFe2Si2 using the crystal-field parameters (CFPs) proposed by Chatterji et al. recently [1]. Our calculated magnetization and magnetic specific heat curves obtained with the above CFPs based on the two-ion model we developed recently show reasonable agreement with the experimental data.