Neutron diffraction studies on valence ordering compound YbPd

Kohei Oyama, Masaki Sugishima, Kousuke Tanabe, Akihiro Mitsuda, Hirofumi Wada, Kenji Ohoyama, Takeshi Matsukawa, Yukihiko Yoshida, Akinori Hoshikawa, Toru Ishigaki, Kazuaki Iwasa

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Abstract

The magnetic structure of YbPd was determined for a newly synthesized strain-free sample by neutron diffraction techniques. The sinusoidal magnetic structure characterized by an incommensurate wave vector k = (0.080 0 0.32) is observed in the magnetic-ordered phase between T3 = 1.9 K and T4 = 0.5 K, which is composed of the magneticmoment amplitude of 0.3 μB parallel to the a-axis in the tetragonal crystal-structure phase. The modulated magnetic structure is consistent with the previously proposed Yb-ion valence ordered structure appearing below T2 = 105 K, which consists of the periodic arrangement of magnetic and nonmagnetic Yb ions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number114705
Journaljournal of the physical society of japan
Volume87
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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