A combination study of the antiferromagnetism and diffusive magnetic scattering in single-crystal ErPd2Si2 by time-of-flight neutron Laue

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As far as we know there is no single crystal neutron study on ErPr_2Si_2 yet, mainly due to fabrication difficulties. We have grown large (diameter: 6 mm; length: 8 mm) single crystals at 120 atm. Comprehensive in-house Laue, XRD, PPMS and SQUID characterizations show that spin fluctuations, short- and long- range antiferromagnetism exist at different temperature regimes. Present magnetic models reported from powder diffraction are controversial. We thus propose a combined time-of-flight neutron Laue diffraction study to reveal the nature of these intriguing properties. This study will unambiguously determine: (1) The long-range AFM structures below 2.5 K and between 2.5-3.8 K. (2) The 2D/short-range AFM structure between 3.8-4.8 K. (3) The spin fluctuations between 8-30 K. (4) The interplay between these phases. This compound is unique in combing these intriguing physics in one sample.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088652
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088652
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Creator Dr Haifeng Li
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-02-23T09:45:03Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-02-27T10:36:38Z