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Fig. 7.10. MF calculation of the ordering temperature T N in Pr, as
a function of the uniaxial pressure in the a -direction, compared with the
neutron-diffraction measurements of McEwen et al. (1983).
for the hexagonal ions. Neglecting the magnetoelastic coupling to the
cubic ions, we obtain from eqn (7.3.2) the following γ -strain contribution
to the magnetic Hamiltonian:
B γ 2 O 2 ( J i ) 2
+t 11 / c γ +
O 2 ( J i )
γ , (7 . 4 . 3)
H γ (sta) =
B γ 2
H
i hex . ions
in the presence of a uniaxial stress along the ξ -axis. N in (7.3.2) is
the total number of ions, or twice the number of hexagonal sites. At
zero temperature and zero magnetic field, the only effect of
H γ (sta),
within the effective ( J = 1)-model, is that the crystal-field splitting
which determines the excitation spectrum becomes different for the two
polarizations, and for instance ∆ η , giving the J η -mode energies, is found
to be
η =∆ η ( t 11 )=∆
B γ 2 M 22 t 11 /c γ ,
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