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Ikeda, Shugo; Metoki, Naoto; Haga, Yoshinori; Kaneko, Koji; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Onuki, Yoshichika
Physica B; Condensed Matter, 359-361, p.1030 - 1032, 2005/06
Times Cited Count:1 Percentile:6.23(Physics, Condensed Matter)We have succeeded to grow a single crystal of uranium ternary intermetallic compound UPdGa by the Ga self-flux method. The magnetic susceptibility showed a weak temperature dependence and small anisotropy,consistent with an itinerant character of 5 electrons. We observed a clear drop in the susceptibility and electrical resistivity below the Neel temperature = 31 K. The magnetic structure was studied by means of a neutron diffraction measurement. We observed an antiferromagnetic peak with the propagation vector =[0,0,1/2]. The uranium 5 moment of 0.33 parallel to the -axis was found to order ferromagnetically in the basal -plane and coupled antiferromagnetically along the -axis.
Kaneko, Koji; Metoki, Naoto; Bernhoeft, N.*; Lander, G. H.; Ishii, Yoshinobu; Ikeda, Shugo; Tokiwa, Yoshifumi; Haga, Yoshinori; Onuki, Yoshichika
Physical Review B, 68(21), p.214419_1 - 214419_9, 2003/12
Times Cited Count:59 Percentile:88.77(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)The crystal structure, lattice strain due to the antiferromagnetic ordering and magnetic form factor in the itinerant 5 compounds UTGa (T: Ni, Pd, Pt) have been studied by neutron scattering. High-resolution powder diffraction revealed that the tetragonality of the U-Ga layers increases with the ionic radius of the transition metal element T. The observed antiferromagnetic reflections can be well explained with the Nel-type structure for UNiGa, whereas UPtGa has the antiferromagnetic stacking of the ferromagnetically ordered uranium moments in the -plane. The orbital contributions in the magnetic form factor are reduced from the free ion value, especially for UNiGa. This suppression shows a strong correlation with the bulk magnetic susceptibility. The tetragonality of the U-Ga layers is a sensitive measure of the nearest neighbour interaction, the lattice anomaly, and the orbital contribution and suggests that orbital degrees of freedom may play an important role for the magnetic properties in these itinerant 5 antiferromagnets.