Structure and spin-glass magnetism of the Fe$_{1.5}$Ni$_{1.5}$Ga$_4$ metallic alloy

Buxi, Krishnendu (author), Pan, Rahul (author), Jagličić, Zvonko (author), Jelen, Andreja (author), Luzar, Jože (author), Mihor, Peter (author), Vrtnik, Stanislav (author), Koželj, Primož (author), Petrović, Julia (author), Avdeev, Maxim (author), Pratim Jana, Partha (author), Dolinšek, Janez (author)

The Ga-rich region of the Fe−Ni−Ga ternary system was investigated, by exploring a line of compositions Fe$_x$Ni$_{3−x}$Ga$_4$, with 0.5 ≤ x ≤ 2.5. The single-phase cubic material was found only at the composition Fe$_{1.5}$Ni$_{1.5}$Ga$_4$ and its immediate vicinity, representing a new phase in the Fe−Ni−Ga diagram. The homogeneity range of this phase was estimated by additionally exploring a set of compositions Fe$_x$Ni$_y$Ga$_z$ around the central composition Fe$_{1.5}$Ni$_{1.5}$Ga$_4$. The structural model was constructed based on the structure of the binary Ni$_3$Ga$_4$ parent phase, which crystallizes in the cubic Ia$\overline{3}$d space group. We have considered that by substituting Fe for Ni, the Ia$\overline{3}$d structure is preserved, with the Fe and Ni being statistically distributed at their 48g Wyckoff site. The possibility of a symmetry-reduced chiral structural model I4$_1$32 driven by chemical ordering of Fe and Ni cannot be entirely ruled out on the basis of the crystallographic study. The magnetic study of the Fe$_{1.5}$Ni$_{1.5}$Ga$_4$ phase has revealed that the material forms a spin glass phase below the spin freezing temperature T$_f$ ≈ 9 K. Since the spin glass ordering of the Fe and Ni magnetic moments is compatible with their random distribution, the magnetic study supports the disordered cubic Ia$\overline{3}$d model.

• Language: English
• Keywords: magnetic properties, alloys, intermetallics, thermodynamic properties, quantum mechanics
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering; FMF - Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: Str. 5049-5059
• Numbering: Vol. 65, iss. 9
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-189519
• UDC: 546
• ISSN on article: 1520-510X
• DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c05447
• COBISS.SI-ID: 269941763
• Publication date in RUL: 08.10.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Inorganic chemistry
• Shortened title: Inorg. chem.
• Publisher: American Chemical Society
• ISSN: 1520-510X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 512805401

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• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: zlitine, kovine, magnetne lastnosti, relativistična mehanika, termodinamika