A newly developed pressure setup for a.c. susceptibility measurements in the pressure range up to 2.0 GPa is presented; the temperature domain extends from 77 to 450 K. The steel pressure chamber contains the sample located at the center of a set of three compensated pick-up coils and the pressure and temperature sensors. Either alcohol or extraction naphtha is used as the liquid pressure transmitting medium. The (P,T) magnetic phase diagram of (Fe_{0.975}Ni_{0.025})_{2}P system in the pressure range up to 2.0 GPa is reported.
This report focuses on magnetoelastic properties and critical behaviour of (Fe_{1-x}Ni_{x})_{2}P system. For low Ni content (x=0.01) an isolated critical point was found. Analysis of this critical behaviour in the frame of molecular field approximation was carried out. Moreover, thermal variations of the lattice parameters, as measured by X-ray diffraction techniques, were studied. The (P,T) phase diagrams obtained for several Ni contents show the evidence that the Curie temperature decreases with pressure. The Mössbauer spectra collected for x = 0.025, 0.1, 0.2, 0.25 at different temperatures are also analysed. The existence of two nonequivalent crystallographic sites occupied by iron atoms as well as local magnetic structure is discussed.
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