American Institute of Physics, Journal of Applied Physics, 7(111), p. 07E110
DOI: 10.1063/1.3671435
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The dc and ac susceptibilities, magnetization curves and long-time relaxation were measured on a stoichiometric polycrystalline sample of Pr0.5Ca0.5CoO3. The compound shows a metal-insulator transition at TM-I=76 K, associated with combined spin-state and valency transformation of cobalt ions. Below 10 K the onset of a glassy ferromagnetism (Tf≈6.5 K) is observed, characterized by a frequency dependent susceptibility, S-type character of the virgin curve and ageing effect. An anomalously constricted hysteresis loop at T=Tf accompanied by a minimum in the temperature dependence of the coercivity was ascribed to an interaction between the glassy ferromagnetic and additional minor FM phase.