Single crystals of monoclinic La5Co2Ge3 were grown using a self-flux method and were characterized by room-temperature powder x-ray diffraction, anisotropic temperature- and field-dependent magnetization, temperature-dependent resistivity, specific heat, and muon spin rotation. La5Co2Ge3 has a Curie temperature (T-C) of 3.8 K and clear signatures of ferromagnetism in magnetization and mu SR data, as well as a clear loss of spin disorder scattering in resistivity data and a sharp specific heat anomaly. The magnetism associated with La5Co2Ge3 is itinerant has a change in the entropy at T-C of similar or equal to 0.05R ln 2 per mol Co and has a low-field saturated moment of similar to 0.1 mu(B)/Co, making it a rare, itinerant, small moment, low-T-C compound.
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This article is published as Saunders, Scott, Li Xiang, Rustem Khasanov, Tai Kong, Qisheng Lin, Sergey Bud'ko, and Paul Canfield. "Exceedingly Small Moment Itinerant Ferromagnetism of Single Crystalline La5Co2Ge3." Physical Review B 101, no. 21 (2020): 214405. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.214405. Posted with permission.