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Thermal neutron diffraction determination of the magnetic structure of EuCu2Ge2

  • 1. Department of Physics, and Centre for the Physics of Materials, McGill University, 3600 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8 (Canada)
  • 2. Laboratoire CRISMAT, ENSICAEN, UMR 6508 CNRS, 6 Boulevard du Maréchal Juin, 14050 Caen Cedex 4 (France)
  • 3. School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra BC 2610 (Australia)

Description

The magnetic structure of EuCu2Ge2 has been determined by flat-plate neutron powder diffraction. Two magnetic phases are present in the neutron diffraction pattern at 3.5 K. They have the same moment, within error, and a common transition temperature. Both 151Eu and 153Eu Mössbauer spectroscopy show that the two magnetic phases belong to the same crystallographic phase. Both phases can be modelled by planar helimagnetic structures: one with a propagation vector of [0.654(1), 0, 0], the other with a propagation vector of [0.410(1), 0.225(1), 0]

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Journal Title
Journal of Applied Physics
Journal Volume
115
Journal Issue
17
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
0021-8979
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Conference

Title
55. annual conference on magnetism and magnetic materials
Dates
14-18 Nov 2010
Place
Atlanta, GA (United States)

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