Magnetic anisotropy of the antiferroquadrupole phase in Ce0.50La0.50B6 |
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Authors: | Akatsu Mitsuhiro Goto Terutaka Suzuki Osamu Nemoto Yuichi Nakamura Shintaro Kunii Satoru Kido Giyuu |
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Affiliation: | Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181, Japan. |
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Abstract: | Magnetic phase diagrams for antiferroquadrupole (AFQ) phase II and antiferromagnetic (AFM) phase III in Ce0.50La0.50B6 with a Gamma(8) ground state have been investigated by ultrasonic measurements. The hybrid magnet (Gama) in the National Institute for Materials Science was employed for high-field measurements up to 30 T and a 3He-4He dilution refrigerator was used for low-temperature experiments down to 20 mK. The phase boundary from paramagnetic phase I to AFQ phase II under [001] magnetic fields closes at H(I-II) approximately 29 T, while the boundary is still open under fields along the [110] and [111] directions even up to 30 T. This anisotropic character of phase II in fields is consistent with the theoretical calculation based on the O(xy)-type AFQ ordering. We also found that AFM phase III reduces considerably in fields turning from the [001] to [110] and [111] directions. |
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