From low-field measurements of the susceptibility at temperatures up to 385 K, fitted to the Curie-Weiss expression, the exchange constant J/kB of Pb1-xEuxTe has been obtained for different values of x. It has been observed that J/kB decreases with increasing x. Reasons for this decrease are proposed. Measurements of the low-temperature magnetization at fields up to 23 T yield a value of the pair exchange constant Jp/kB, which is somewhat larger than the values from the susceptibility measurements and is nearly independent of x. This result seems to be due to the clustering of Eu atoms.
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Physical Review B (Condensed Matter) 55(7), pp.4400-4404
