Gradual development of
antiferromagnetic moment in the giant negative thermal expansion material Mn
Cu
Ge
N (
0.5)
巨大負熱膨張物質Mn
Cu
Ge
N(
0.5)における
型反強磁性モーメントの緩やかな増大
樹神 克明
; 飯久保 智*; 竹中 康司*; 滝川 仁*; 高木 英典*; 社本 真一

Kodama, Katsuaki; Iikubo, Satoshi*; Takenaka, Koshi*; Takigawa, Masashi*; Takagi, Hidenori*; Shamoto, Shinichi
The anti-perovskite compound Mn
Cu
Ge
N with
has a giant negative thermal expansion coefficient due to the magneto-volume effect near room temperature. Competition between the
and
antiferromagnetic structures around the magnetic ordering temperature could be the driving force for such a phenomenon. In order to examine this possibility, we performed neutron diffraction experiments on Mn
Cu
Ge
N and
N nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on Mn
Cu
Ge
N. As a reference material, we also investigated Mn
NiN, whose spin structure is represented by a linear combination of the
and
antiferromagnetic components. We conclude that in Mn
Cu
Ge
N (
), the
antiferromagnetic component is nearly absent and the competition between the
and
antiferromagnetic structures is irelevant to the giant negative thermal expansion coefficient. The
antiferromagnetic ordered moment gradually develops with decreasing temperature. This provides a thorough justification for the analysis presented in the previous letter.