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The effects of magnetic doping on a EuB_6 single crystal were investigated based on magnetic and transport measurements. A modest 5% Sm substitution for Eu changes the magnetic and transport properties dramatically and gives rise to concurrent antiferromagnetic and metal-insulator transitions (MIT) from ferromagnetic MIT for EuB6. Magnetic doping simultaneously changes the itinerant carrier density and the magnetic interactions. We discuss the origin of the concurrent magnetic MIT in (Eu,Sm)B_6.
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In the supplemental materials we justify our choice of the number of Chebychev moments used within the kernel polynomial method, show some preliminary results for the large coupling behavior, discuss possible correlation effects in the local density of states, estimate the spin relaxation length and introduce the goodness of fit probability that is used to assess the quality of the fits.
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