Magnetism in neodymium at high pressure

We have carried out magnetic neutron diffraction studies of a single crystal of neodymium at high pressure, using clamp cells on the diffractometer D10 at the Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble. The magnetic ordering was investigated at pressures up to 14 kbar in the temperature range 1.4-25 K. A number of quite different magnetic phases were observed, including the coexistence of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic ordering of moments on the inequivalent crystallographic sites. The structures formed and the population of the different symmetrically equivalent domains appear to be affected by complex interactions between the cubic-site ferromagnetism, the antiferromagnetic hexagonal-site ordering and a uniaxial component of stress. (author)