Anisotropic re-entrant spin-glass features in a metallic kagome lattice, Tb3Ru4Al12

Abstract

We report the results of ac and dc magnetic susceptibility and isothermal magnetization measurements (T= 2-300 K) on the single crystals of a metallic kagome lattice, Tb3Ru4Al12, reported recently to undergo reentrant magnetism with the onset of long range antiferromagnetic order below (TN=) 22K. The magnetization data obtained on the crystal with the c-axis orientation along magnetic-field reveal spin-glass-like characteristics near 17 K (below TN). However, for the orientation along basal plane, such glassy anomalies are not observable above 2 K. In this respect, this compound behaves like an anisotropic reentrant spin-glass. Possible implications of this finding to the field of geometrically frustrated magnetism is considered.

9 pages, 4 figures

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