Magnetic Structures of Ho_5Rh_4Ge_{10}

• Authors: A. Szytuła , B. Penc , M. Hofmann , W. Sikora
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A powder diffraction measurement of Ho_5Rh_4Ge_{10} is reported. This compound crystallizes in the tetragonal Sc_5Co_4Si_{10}-type structure (space group P4/mbm) in which the Ho atoms occupy three different sites. The neutron diffraction measurements indicate antiferromagnetic order with the Néel temperature T_{N}=7 K. Below T_{N} an additional phase transition at 4.5 K connected with the change of the magnetic structure is observed. The Ho moments in 4(h) site form collinear order up to T_{N} while moments at 2(a) site form sine modulated structure. Determined experimentally magnetic structures are compared to the results of symmetry analysis.

Keywords

EN

75.25.-j; 75.47.Pq; 75.50.Ee

Discipline

• 75.47.Pq: Other materials
• 75.50.Ee: Antiferromagnetics
• 75.25.-j: Spin arrangements in magnetically ordered materials (including neutron and spin-polarized electron studies, synchrotron-source x-ray scattering, etc.)(for devices exploiting spin polarized transport, see 85.75.-d)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 124
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1002-1004

Dates

published

2013-12

Contributors

author

A. Szytuła

• Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, W.S. Reymonta 4, 30-059 Kraków, Poland

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B. Penc

• Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, W.S. Reymonta 4, 30-059 Kraków, Poland

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M. Hofmann

• Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRMII), Technische Universität Munchen, 85747 Garching, Germany

author

W. Sikora

• AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.124.1002