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    Detailed Measurements of Characteristic Profiles of Magnetic Diffuse Scattering in ErB2_2C2_2

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    Detailed neutron diffraction measurements on a single crystalline ErB2_2C2_2 were performed. We observed magnetic diffuse scattering which consists of three components just above the transition temperatures, which is also observed in characteristic antiferroquadrupolar ordering compounds HoB2_2C2_2 and TbB2_2C2_2. The result of this experiments indicates that the antiferroquadrupolar interaction is not dominantly important as a origin of the magnetic diffuse scattering.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jp

    Multipole tensor analysis of the resonant x-ray scattering by quadrupolar and magnetic order in DyB2C2

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    Resonant x-ray scattering (RXS) experiment has been performed for the (3 0 1.5) superlattice reflection in the antiferroquadrupolar and antiferromagnetic phase of DyB2C2. Azimuthal-angle dependence of the resonance enhanced intensities for both dipolar (E1) and quadrupolar (E2) resonant processes has been measured precisely with polarization analysis. Every scattering channel exhibits distinctive azimuthal dependence, differently from the symmetric reflection at (0 0 0.5) which was studied previously. We have analyzed the results using a theory developed by Lovesey et al., which directly connects atomic tensors with the cross-section of RXS. The fitting results indicate that the azimuthal dependences can be explained well by the atomic tensors up to rank 2. Rank 3 and rank 4 tensors are reflected in the data very little. In addition, The coupling scheme among the 4f quadrupolar moment, 5d ortitals, and the lattice has been determined from the interference among the Thomson scattering from the lattice distortion and the resonant scatterings of E1 and E2 processes. It has also been established from the RXS of the (3 0 1.5) reflection that the canting of the 4f quadrupolar moments exists up to T_Q. We also discuss a possible wavefunction of the ground state from the point-charge model calculation.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figure

    Universal magnetic structure of the half-magnetization phase in Cr-based spinels

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    Using an elastic neutron scattering technique under a pulsed magnetic field up to 30 T, we determined the magnetic structure in the half-magnetization plateau phase in the spinel CdCr2_2O4_4. The magnetic structure has a cubic P43P4_332 symmetry, which is the same as that observed in HgCr2_2O4_4. This suggests that there is a universal field induced spin-lattice coupling mechanism at work in the Cr-based spinels.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure

    Magnetic Phase Diagrams with Possible Field-induced Antiferroquadrupolar Order in TbB2_2C2_2

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    Magnetic phase diagrams of a tetragonal antiferromagnet TbB2_2C2_2 were clarified by temperature and field dependence of magnetization. It is noticeable that the N{\'e}el temperature in TbB2_2C2_2 is anomalously enhanced with magnetic fields, in particular the enhancement reaches 13.5 K for the {} direction at 10 T. The magnetization processes as well as the phase diagrams are well interpreted assuming that there appear field-induced antiferroquadrupolar ordered phases in TbB2_2C2_2. The phase diagrams of the AFQ compounds in RB2_2C2_2 are systematically understood in terms of the competition with AFQ and AFM interactions.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX

    Thermal Properties of Heavy Fermion Compound YbP

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    Low-temperature specific heat and its field-dependence up to 16 T was measured in a stoichiometric single crystal of YbP. A sharp peak was observed at {\it T}N_{\rm N} = 0.53 K in zero magnetic field. Application of external field seems to induce a new magnetic phase above 11 T. The field dependence of the transition temperature in the high-field phase is different from that of the low field phase. The linear coefficient of the electronic specific heat is estimated as 120 mJ/mole K2^{2} from low temperature specfic heat, suggesting heavy Fermion state in YbP.Comment: to be published in J.Phys.Soc.Jpn on May, 200

    Modified Cross-Correlation for Efficient White-Beam Inelastic Neutron Scattering Spectroscopy

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    We describe a method of white-beam inelastic neutron scattering for improved measurement efficiency. The method consists of matrix inversion and selective extraction. The former is to resolve each incident energy component from the white-beam data, and the latter eliminates contamination by elastic components, which produce strong backgrounds that otherwise obfuscate the inelastic scattering components. In this method, the optimal experimental condition to obtain high efficiency will strongly depend on the specific aim of the individual experiments.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure

    Relation between crystal and magnetic structures of the layered manganites La2-2xSr1+2xMn2O7 (0.30 =< x =< 0.50)

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    Comprehensive neutron-powder diffraction and Rietveld analyses were carried out to clarify the relation between the crystal and magnetic structures of La2-2xSr1+2xMn2O7 (0.30 =< x =< 0.50). The Jahn-Teller (JT) distortion of Mn-O6 octahedra, i.e., the ratio of the averaged apical Mn-O bond length to the equatorial Mn-O bond length, is Delta_JT=1.042(5) at x=0.30, where the magnetic easy-axis at low temperature is parallel to the c axis. As the JT distortion becomes suppressed with increasing x, a planar ferromagnetic structure appears at x =< 0.32, which is followed by a canted antiferromagnetic (AFM) structure at x =< 0.39. The canting angle between neighboring planes continuously increases from 0 deg (planar ferromagnet: 0.32 =< x < 0.39) to 180 deg (A-type AFM: x=0.48 where Delta_JT=1.013(5)). Dominance of the A-type AF structure with decrease of JT distortion can be ascribed to the change in the eg orbital state from d3z^2-r^2 to dx^2-y^2

    Emergence of magnetic long-range order in frustrated pyrochlore Nd2_2Ir2_2O7_7 with metal-insulator transition

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    In this study, we performed powder neutron diffraction and inelastic scattering measurements of frustrated pyrochlore Nd2_2Ir2_2O7_7, which exhibits a metal-insulator transition at a temperature TMIT_{\rm MI} of 33 K. The diffraction measurements revealed that the pyrochlore has an antiferromagnetic long-range structure with propagation vector q0\vec{q}_{0} of (0,0,0) and that it grows with decreasing temperature below 15 K. This structure was analyzed to be of the all-in all-out type, consisting of highly anisotropic Nd3+^{3+} magnetic moments of magnitude 2.3±0.42.3\pm0.4μB\mu_{\rm B}, where μB\mu_{\rm B} is the Bohr magneton. The inelastic scattering measurements revealed that the Kramers ground doublet of Nd3+^{3+} splits below TMIT_{\rm MI}. This suggests the appearance of a static internal magnetic field at the Nd sites, which probably originates from a magnetic order consisting of Ir4+^{4+} magnetic moments. Here, we discuss a magnetic structure model for the Ir order and the relation of the order to the metal-insulator transition in terms of frustration.Comment: 6 pages, 1 table, 3 figure
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