The effect of the selective influence of a dc magnetic field on the characteristics of nominally pure triglycine sulfate crystals
was detected for the first time. A short (minutes) exposure to a weak magnetic field
B
0=0.08±0.01 T caused long-term (hundreds of hours) changes in the spontaneous polarization, coercive field, Curie temperature,
and permittivity of the crystal at the Curie point. The effect is selective in nature presumably because of the participation
of hydrogen bond protons in the spin-dependent processes of the transformation of defect complexes in real crystals.
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Translated from Fizika Tverdogo Tela, Vol. 45, No. 9, 2003, pp. 1680–1684.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2003 by Levin, Postnikov, Palagin.