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Magnetic Fluctuations in Heavy Fermion Systems. A Neutron Scattering Study of UPt<sub>3</sub>, U<sub>2</sub>Zn<sub>1</sub><sub>7</sub> and URu<sub>2</sub>Si<sub>2</sub>
Antiferromagnetism and Its Relation to the Superconducting Phases of UPt3
Using magnetic x-ray and neutron diffraction in UPt3, we find that a suppression of the antiferromagnetic scattering intensity in the superconducting phase is due to a reduction in the magnitude of the staggered moment with no change in symmetry. The existence of the suppression as well as the magnetic correlation lengths are not affected by the presence or absence of a visible splitting in the superconducting transition. The simplest models wherein antiferromagnetic order provides the symmetry-breaking field for the splitting do not provide a compete explanation of our results
Divergent effects of static disorder and hole doping in geometrically frustrated b-CaCr2O4
The gallium substituted and calcium deficient variants of geometrically
frustrated b-CaCr2O4, b-CaCr2-2xGa2xO4 (0.02<= x<= 0.25) and b-Ca1-yCr2O4
(0.075<= y<= 0.15), have been investigated by x-ray powder diffraction,
magnetization and specific heat measurements. This allows for a direct
comparison of the effects, in a geometrically frustrated magnet, of the static
disorder that arises from non-magnetic substitution and the dynamic disorder
that arises from hole doping. In both cases, disturbing the Cr3+ lattice
results in a reduction in the degree of magnetic frustration. On substitution
of Ga, which introduces disorder without creating holes, a gradual release of
spins from ordered antiferromagnetic states is observed. In contrast, in the
calcium deficient compounds the introduction of holes induces static
ferrimagnetic ordering and much stronger perturbations of the b-CaCr2O4 host.Comment: 23 pages, 10 figure