CRITICAL PARAMETERS OF PEROVSKTE COMPOSITION Pr5/8Ca3/8Mn0.9875Pd0.0125O3, EXHIBITING THE CROSSOVER OF FIRST AND SECOND ORDER PHASE TRANSITION

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A compound of  Pr_5/8Ca_3/8Mn_0.9875Pd_0.0125O₃ with orthorhombic structure was fabricated using a sol-gel method. The critical parameters with ​​b=0.188(5) and g=1.005(3) calculated from the magnetic data  around Curie temperature of 260 K are quite close to those of the tricritical mean field model. This indicates that the magnetic interaction in the compound is a combination of the long- and short-range interactions. It means the paramagnetic-ferromagnetic phase transition of Pr_5/8Ca_3/8Mn_7.9/8Pd_0.1/8O₃ compound is crossover of the first- and second-order phase transitions.