Cooling by adiabatic pressure application in Pr1-xLaxNiO3

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1056-1058

  Alex Muller K ^a   Fauth, François ^b   Fischer, Stephan ^b   Koch, Max ^b   Furrer, Albert ^b   Lacorre, Philippe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Laboratory for Neutron Scattering Villigen   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

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EID: 0001544955     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.122083     Document Type: Article

References (9)

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5. 3 and therefore irrelevant for the present application.
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9. 3+ ions. For our calculations, we have assumed an exchange interaction of the order of 1 K as derived from heat capacity data [P. Allenspach (private communication)].