We present measurements of the spin and orbital magnetic moments of Fe3O4 by using SQUID and magnetic circular dichroism in soft x-ray absorption. The measurements show that Fe3O4 has a noninteger spin moment, in contrast to its predicted half-metallic feature. Fe3O4 also exhibits a large unquenched orbital moment. Calculations using the local density approximation including the Hubbard U method and the configuration interaction cluster-model suggest that strong correlations and spin-orbit interaction of the 3d electrons result in the noninteger spin and large orbital moments of Fe3O4.
The thermodynamics and kinetics of the magnetic states of the semiconductor-like compound La0.7Sr0.3Mn0.7Co0.3O3 were studied by detailed magnetic measurements. The spontaneous magnetic state was found to be a cluster-glass phase which can cross over to a ferromagnetic state under an external magnetic field H. The defreezing temperature Tf for the cluster-glass phase and the merging temperature Tm for zero field cooled and field cooled magnetizations are related to the field H by Hj=H0j(1−Tj/Tc)nj, where H0j and nj are constants and j=f,m. Codoping tends to destroy the double exchange in Mn4+–O–Mn3+ and broadens the coexistence region of the cluster-glass and ferromagnetic states. The magnetic relaxation was found to deviate from the usual logarithmic time dependence and follow a power law.
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