Magnetic phases in pseudoternary system UCoRuAl

Pospisil, J.; Haga, Yoshinori   ; Tateiwa, Naoyuki   ; Yamamoto, Etsuji  

UCoAl and URuAl remain paramagnetic at temperatures at least down to 30 mK. At He temperatures, UCoAl shows a metamagnetic transition at a magnetic field of 0.6 T applied along the c-axis. Despite the paramagnetism of parent compounds a huge dome of stable ferromagnetism exists over a wide concentration range of pseudoternary UCoRuAlcompounds. For x 0.4, there seems to exist two ferromagnetic phases depending on temperature. We have grown three single crystals of the representative composition x = 0.56, 0.70 and 0.78, respectively, and investigated the character and temperature range of stability of the two ferromagnetic phases. A scenario will be discussed considering different coherence of the two magnetically ordered phases.