Published November 15, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Fractal structure and critical scattering in the three-dimensional percolating antiferromagnet, RbMn0.31Mg0.69F3

  • 1. Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, 305-0801 (Japan)
  • 2. Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai 319-1195 (Japan)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578 (Japan)
  • 4. Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokai 319-1106 (Japan)
  • 5. ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX (United Kingdom)
  • 6. Low Temperature Center, Osaka University, Toyonaka 560-0043 (Japan)

Description

We have performed neutron scattering experiments to investigate the static magnetic structure and the magnetic critical scattering in the three-dimensional percolating Heisenberg antiferromagnet, RbMn0.31Mg0.69F3, whose magnetic concentration is just at the percolation concentration for a cubic lattice, cP=0.312. Magnetic scattering was observed around the superlattice point, (12,12,12). We determined the Neel temperature of this system to be TN=4.0+/-0.5K, and found that the critical scattering above TN is similar to that observed in the homogeneous system. At T=1.6K well below TN, the scattering function is described by a sum of the critical scattering and elastic scattering components, and we demonstrated that the q-variation of the intensity of the elastic scattering component can be described using the fractal dimension

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2006.05.146;
PII
S0921-4526(06)01037-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
385-386
Journal Page Range
p. 441-443
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

Conference

Title
8. international conference on neutron scattering
Dates
27 Nov - 2 Dec 2005
Place
Sydney (Australia)

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Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.