Author/Authors :
Y. Machida، نويسنده , , S. Nakatsuji، نويسنده , , H. Tonomura، نويسنده , , T. Tayama، نويسنده , , T. Sakakibara، نويسنده , , J. van Duijn، نويسنده , , C. Broholm، نويسنده , , Z. Q. Mao and Y. Maeno، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
DC susceptibility, specific heat and inelastic neutron scattering measurements have been performed on the metallic pyrochlore compound Pr2Ir2O7. No anomalies indicative of a magnetic phase transition were found for temperatures greater than 1.8 K. Our experiments and analysis show that Pr3+ ground state is a well-isolated magnetic doublet with Ising-like moments of ∼3.0 μB oriented along the local 〈111〉 direction of each tetrahedral unit.
