Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-19-2001
Abstract
We discuss possible magnetic structures in UPt3 based on our analysis of elastic neutron-scattering experiments in high magnetic fields at temperatures T < TN. The existing experimental data are compatible with a true antiferromagnetic order displaying a single-q antiferromagnetic structure with three independent domains. For modest in-plane spin-orbit interactions, the Zeeman coupling between the antiferromagnetic order parameter and the magnetic field induces a rotation of the magnetic moments, but not an adjustment of the propagation vector of the magnetic order. A triple-q magnetic structure is also consistent with neutron experiments, but in general leads to a nonuniform magnetization in the crystal. New experiments involving higher fields and polarized neutrons could decide between these structures. © 2000 The American Physical Society.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Recommended Citation
Moreno, J., & Sauls, J. (2001). Magnetic field effects on neutron diffraction in the antiferromagnetic phase of UPt3. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 63 (2) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.63.024419