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    Incommensurate magnetism near quantum criticality in CeNiAsO

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    Two phase transitions in the tetragonal strongly correlated electron system CeNiAsO were probed by neutron scattering and zero field muon spin rotation. For T<TN1T <T_{N1} = 8.7(3) K, a second order phase transition yields an incommensurate spin density wave with wave vector k=(0.44(4),0,0)\textbf{k} = (0.44(4), 0, 0). For T<TN2T < T_{N2} = 7.6(3) K, we find co-planar commensurate order with a moment of 0.37(5) μB0.37(5)~\mu_B, reduced to 30%30 \% of the saturation moment of the ∣±12⟩|\pm\frac{1}{2}\rangle Kramers doublet ground state, which we establish by inelastic neutron scattering. Muon spin rotation in CeNiAs1−xPxO\rm CeNiAs_{1-x}P_xO shows the commensurate order only exists for x ≤\le 0.1 so the transition at xcx_c = 0.4(1) is from an incommensurate longitudinal spin density wave to a paramagnetic Fermi liquid
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