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Variations in magnetic properties of the heavy-fermion YbNi2 alloy when milled in a high energy ball milling system have been investigated. The ferromagnetic transition (T C = 10.4 K) in the initial sample almost vanishes after milling, which leads to the appearance of a magnetic transition at T* = 3.2 K in nanocrystallites. Before milling, processes of spin–lattice relaxation of the Orbach–Aminov type with the participation of the first excited Stark sublevel of the Yb3+ ion located at 75 K are dominating in the electron spin dynamics in the paramagnetic phase of the alloy. A comparative study of the temperature dependence of the magnetic properties and spectra of electron paramagnetic resonance in poly- and nanocrystalline samples indicates the existence of a magnetic inhomogeneity of the compound arising upon milling.
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Original Russian Text © V.A. Ivanshin, E.M. Gataullin, A.A. Sukhanov, N.A. Ivanshin, D.P. Rojas, L. Fernández Barquín, 2017, published in Fizika Metallov i Metallovedenie, 2017, Vol. 118, No. 4, pp. 359–363.
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Ivanshin, V.A., Gataullin, E.M., Sukhanov, A.A. et al. Magnetic behavior of the nanophase of YbNi2 alloys. Phys. Metals Metallogr. 118, 341–345 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031918X17040044
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