Cycloidal magnetic ordering in noncentrosymmetric EuIrGe

松村 武*; 塚越 舜*; 上田 祥央*; 比嘉 野乃花*; 中尾 朗子*; 金子 耕士; 垣花 将司*; 辺土 正人*; 仲間 隆男*; 大貫 惇睦*

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 91(7), p.073703_1 - 073703_5, 2022/07

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.91.073703

Successive magnetic phase transitions in EuIrGe, an intermetallic compound with a body centered tetragonal lattice belonging to a polar space group I4mm, has been investigated by neutron diffraction and resonant X-ray diffraction. It is shown that EuIrGe exhibits an incommensurate longitudinal sinusoidalorder with (0, 0, 0.792) and m c-axis in the high temperature phase, which changes to a cycloidal order with = (, 0, 0.8) ( 0.017) and m ac-plane in the intermediate phase. In the low temperature phase, the cycloidal plane rotates by 45 to have =(, 0.8) (0.012). It is also pointed out that the X-ray scattering amplitude from odd-parity magnetic quadrupole due to the polar environment interfere with that from normal even-parity magnetic dipole in the magnetic ordered phase.