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Nature of Partial Magnetic Order in the Frustrated Antiferromagnet Gd2Ti2O7 by Paddison, Joseph A. M.; Cairns, Andrew B.; Khalyavin, Dmitry D.; Manuel, Pascal; Daoud-Aladine, Aziz; Ehlers, Georg; Petrenko, Oleg A.; Gardner, Jason S.; Zhou, H. D.; Goodwin, Andrew L.; Stewart, J. Ross is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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The frustrated pyrochlore antiferromagnet Gd$_{2}$Ti$_{2}$O$_{7}$ has an unusual partially-ordered magnetic structure at the lowest measurable temperatures. This structure is currently believed to involve four magnetic propagation vectors $\mathbf{k}\in \langle \frac{1}{2} \frac{1}{2} \frac{1}{2} \rangle^*$ in a cubic 4-$\mathbf{k}$ structure, based on analysis of magnetic diffuse-scattering data [J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 16, L321 (2004)]. Here, we present three pieces of evidence against the 4-$\mathbf{k}$ structure. First, we report single-crystal neutron-diffraction measurements as a function of applied magnetic field, which are consistent with the selective field-induced population of non-cubic magnetic domains. Second, we present evidence from high-resolution powder neutron-diffraction measurements that rhombohedral strains exist within magnetic domains, which may be generated by magneto-elastic coupling only for the alternative 1-$\mathbf{k}$ structure. Finally, we show that the argument previously used to rule out the 1-$\mathbf{k}$ structure is flawed, and demonstrate that magnetic diffuse-scattering data can actually be fitted quantitatively by a 1-$\mathbf{k}$ structure

Author

Paddison, Joseph A. M.; Cairns, Andrew B.; Khalyavin, Dmitry D.; Manuel, Pascal; Daoud-Aladine, Aziz; Ehlers, Georg; Petrenko, Oleg A.; Gardner, Jason S.; Zhou, H. D.; Goodwin, Andrew L.; Stewart, J. Ross

Published

2015

Language

EN