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Dec 8 – 9, 2022
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Europe/Berlin timezone

Magnetic properties of the noncentrosymmetric tetragonal antiferromagnet EuPtSi$_{3}$

Dec 8, 2022, 2:05 PM
25m
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Talk (20 min + 5 min discussion) Structure Research Structure Research

Speaker

Andreas Bauer (Technische Universität München)

Description

We report a comprehensive study of single crystals of the noncentrosymmetric rare-earth compound $\mathrm{EuPtSi}_{3}$ grown by the optical floating-zone technique. Measurements of the magnetization, ac susceptibility, and specific heat consistently establish antiferromagnetic order of localized $\mathrm{Eu}^{2+}$ moments below the Néel temperature $T_{\mathrm{N}} = 17~\mathrm{K}$, followed by a second magnetic transition at $T_{\mathrm{N1}} = 16~\mathrm{K}$. For a magnetic field along the easy $[001]$ axis, the magnetic phase diagram is composed of these two phases. For fields applied in the magnetically hard basal plane, two additional phases emerge under magnetic field, where the in-plane anisotropy is weak with $[100]$ being the hardest axis. At the phase transitions, the magnetic properties exhibit hysteresis and discrepancies between differential and ac susceptibility, suggesting slow reorientation processes of mesoscale magnetic textures. Consistently, powder and single-crystal neutron diffraction in zero field identify magnetic textures that are modulated on a length scale of the order of $10~\mathrm{nm}$. Using a full linear polarization analysis of resonant elastic x-ray scattering data, we identify the four long-range ordered phases as variations of noncollinear antiferromagnetic order.

Primary authors

Andreas Bauer (Technische Universität München) Christian Pfleiderer Wolfgang Simeth (TU Munich)

Co-authors

Dr Aisha Aqeel (Technische Universität München) Anatoliy Senyshyn Prof. Christian Back (Technische Universität München) Christian Franz Dr Jennifer Sears (DESY) Dr Martin Meven (RWTH Aachen University, Institute of Crystallography - Outstation at MLZ) Dr Pablo Bereciartua Perez (DESY) Mrs Ralitsa Bozhanova (Technische Universität München) Dr Saskia Gottlieb-Schönmeyer (Technische Universität München) Dr Sonia Francoual (DESY) Tobias Schrader

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