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Sinusoidal magnetic structure of andalusite-type AlxFe$$_{2}$$-xGeO$$_{5}$$ with $$x$$ = 0.09 and 0.15

Kakimoto, Kazuo*; Ota, Hiroto*; Haraguchi, Yuya*; Hagihara, Masato   ; Torii, Shuki*; Kamiyama, Takashi*; Katori, Hiroko*

Neutron diffraction experiments on polycrystalline andalusite-type Al$$_{2}$$Fe$$_{2-x}$$GeO$$_{5}$$ with $$x = 0.09$$ to $$0.15$$ were performed. The magnetic Bragg peaks with the propagation vector of $$kappa$$$$_{x=0.09}$$ = (0, 0.150(1), 0) for the sample with $${x = 0.09}$$ and $$kappa$$$$_{x=0.15}$$ = (0, 0.141(1), 0) for the sample with $${x = 0.15}$$ were observed, which means that an incommensurate magnetic order was realized for each sample. The calculation of the magnetic structure factors by the Pawley method and the analysis of the irreducible representations revealed that both samples have a magnetic structure in which the magnetic moments rotate in the crystallographic $$ab$$-plane with sinusoidal modulation along the $$b$$-axis. By the Luttinger Tisza method, we determined the sign of the nearest-neighbor exchange interaction consists that reproduce the magnetic structure obtained by the irreducible representation analysis.

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