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Field Induced Structural Phase Transition At Temperatures Above The Curie Point In Gd5(Sixge1−X)4, Ravi L. Hadimani, Y. Melikhov, J. E. Snyder, David C. Jiles

David C. Jiles

Gd5(SixGe1−x)4 exhibits a field induced first order phase transition from a monoclinic paramagnetic to an orthorhombic ferromagnetic at temperatures above its Curie temperature for 0.41≤x≤0.51. The field required to induce the transition increases with temperature. This field induced first order phase transition was observed even above the projected second order phase transitiontemperature of the orthorhombic phase. This may be due to the fact that the applied magnetic field is so high that it causes the broadening to a wider range of higher temperatures of the second order phase transition of the orthorhombic phase, and at such high magnetic fields the …