Magneto-Caloric Effect in Antiferromagnetic Superconductors

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-1985

Abstract

We have investigated adiabatic magnetization cooling in the antiferromagnetic superconductors GdMo6S8 and TbMo6S8 in their antiferromagnetic states. At 0.5 K the temperature decreased by 0.04 K for GdMo6S8 and by 0.13 K for TbMo6S8 when a magnetic field of 2.5 kOe was applied. In the superconducting state the magnetization cooling is partly masked by a heating effect, possibly resulting from flux flow. In the spin canted and in the paramagnetic states, increasing the field produced a temperature rise.

DOI

10.1016/0038-1098(85)91078-6


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