Magnetic phase diagram and charge transport in TmB12

High precision measurements of magnetoresistance Delta rho/rho=f(T,H) and magnetization M(T,H) have been carried out on single crystals of rare earth dodecaboride TmB12 at temperatures 1.8-30 K in magnetic fields up to 80 kOe. The high accuracy measurements and precise temperature stabilization allowed us to perforin numerical differentiation and analyze quantitatively a behavior of derivative d(Delta rho/rho)/dH=f(T,H) and magnetic susceptibility chi(T,H)=dM/dH in paramagnetic and magnetically ordered phases of thulium dodecaboride. It was shown that negative magnetoresistance anomalies observed in present study in paramagnetic state of TmB12 can be consistently interpreted in frameworks of a simple relation between resistivity and magnetization -Delta rho/rho-M-2 proposed by K. Yosida (Phys. Rev., 107, 396 (1957)). A local magnetic susceptibility chi(loc)(T,H)=(1/H(d(Delta rho/rho)/dH))(1/2) was deduced directly from the magnetoresistance measurements and compared with bulk susceptibility chi(T,H)=dM/dH results of the present study. Moreover, the susceptibility dependences chi(loc)(T,H) and chi(T,H) have been applied to analyze in detail the H-T magnetic phase diagram of TmB12.