title: Magnetic glass in shape memory alloy: Ni45Co5Mn38Sn12.
abstract: The first order martensitic transition in the ferromagnetic shape memory alloy Ni(45)Co(5)Mn(38)Sn(12) is also a magnetic transition and has a large field induced effect. While cooling in the presence of a field this first order magnetic martensite transition is kinetically arrested. Depending on the cooling field, a fraction of the arrested ferromagnetic austenite phase persists down to the lowest temperature as a magnetic glassy state, similar to the one observed in various intermetallic alloys and in half doped manganites. A detailed investigation of this first order ferromagnetic austenite (FM-A) to low magnetization martensite (LM-M) state transition as a function of temperature and field has been carried out by magnetization measurements. Extensive cooling and heating in unequal field (CHUF) measurements and a novel field cooled protocol for isothermal MH measurements (FC-MH) are utilized to investigate the glass like arrested states and show a reverse martensite transition. Finally, we determine a field-temperature (HT) phase diagram of Ni(45)Co(5)Mn(38)Sn(12) from various magnetization measurements which brings out the regions where thermodynamic and metastable states coexist in the HT space, clearly depicting this system as a 'magnetic glass'.
authors.affiliation: UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore, India. archnalakhani@csr.res.in
authors.forename: Archana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lakhani
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Banerjee
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chaddah
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: R V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Ramanujan