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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 60: Correlated Electrons: f-Electron Systems
TT 60.13: Vortrag
Donnerstag, 23. März 2017, 12:45–13:00, HSZ 201
Incommensurate short-range multipolar order parameter of phase II in Ce3Pd20Si6 — •Pavlo Y. Portnichenko1, Silke Paschen2, Andrey Prokofiev2, Matthias Vojta3, Alistair S. Cameron1, Jean-Michel Mignot4, Alexandre Ivanov5, and Dmytro S. Inosov1 — 1IFP, TU Dresden, Germany — 2Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria — 3ITP, TU Dresden, Germany — 4LLB, France — 5ILL, France
The clathrate compound Ce3Pd20Si6 is a heavy-fermion metal that exhibits magnetically hidden order at low temperatures. Reputedly, this exotic type of magnetic ground state, known as “phase II”, could be associated with the ordering of Ce 4f quadrupolar moments. In contrast to conventional (dipolar) order, it has vanishing Bragg intensity in zero magnetic field and, as a result, has escaped direct observation by neutron scattering until now. Here we report the observation of diffuse magnetic neutron scattering induced by an application of magnetic field along either the [110] or the [001] direction within phase II. The broad elastic magnetic signal that surrounds the (111) structural Bragg peak can be attributed to a short-range G-type antiferromagnetic arrangement of field-induced dipoles modulated by the underlying multipolar order on the simple-cubic sublattice of Ce ions occupying the 8c Wyckoff site. In addition, for magnetic fields applied along the [001] direction, the diffuse magnetic peaks in Ce3Pd20Si6 become incommensurate, suggesting a more complex modulated structure of the underlying multipolar order that can be continuously tuned by a magnetic field.