Devil's staircase in the Kondo lattice semimetal CeSbSe

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We propose to determine the magnetic structure of a new material, CeSbSe, at zero field and in magnetic fields up to 3 T, using the unique capabilities of the WISH diffractometer. We have recently reported our discovery of this new material. The special interest in this compound is that it may combine correlated 4f (Kondo) electronic state and magnetic order with topologically non-trivial band topology. A Dirac band crossing has also recently been observed in the related material CeSb. Our key finding has been that in a magnetic field, CeSbSe undergoes an unusual metamagnetic behaviour, where the magnetisation increases in fractional integer steps. This "Devil's staircase" can be explained in terms of the anisotropic nearest neighbour Ising (ANNNI) model. The implied frustration of magnetic exchange interactions promises an added potential for unusual emergent behaviour.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.87838452
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/87838452
Provenance
Creator Dr Pascal Manuel; Dr Ryan Baumbach; Dr Marein Rahn; Dr Marc Janoschek
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-04-24T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-04-27T08:31:30Z