Magnetic structure of CeRh6Ge4 from neutron diffraction

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In Ce-based heavy fermion materials, there is competition between the interactions which lead to a magnetically ordered arrangement of the Ce magnetic moments, and the hybridization between the local moments and conduction electrons, which quenches the local moments. Sometimes the magnetic transition can be tuned to zero temperature at a quantum critical point (QCP), where unusual properties arise due to quantum fluctuations. CeRh6Ge4 orders magnetically at a low temperature of 2.5 K and the system can be readily tuned to a QCP, but CeRh6Ge4 has also been reported to be a ferromagnet, making a QCP highly unusual. Therefore we propose to use low temperature neutron diffraction to determine the magnetic structure, in particular to see whether the system is purely ferromagnetic, or if there is a more complex arrangement of spins, allowing for the quantum criticality to be characterized.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.98028035
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/98028035
Provenance
Creator Dr Michael Smidman; Professor Huiqiu Yuan; Dr Devashi Adroja; Dr Fabio Orlandi
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-02-07T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-02-08T09:21:33Z