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Multi-Q mesoscale magnetism in CeAuSb$_2$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2018-03-07 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We report the discovery of a field driven transition from a striped to woven Spin Density Wave (SDW) in the tetragonal heavy fermion compound CeAuSb2_2. Polarized along c\bf c, the sinusoidal SDW amplitude is 1.8(2) μB\mu_B/Ce for TTNT \ll T_N=6.25(10) K with wavevector q1=(η,η,12){\bf q}_{1}=( \eta, \eta, \frac{1}{2} ) (η=0.136(2)\eta=0.136(2)). For Hc{\bf H}\parallel{\bf c}, harmonics appearing at 2q12{\bf q}_{1} evidence a striped magnetic texture below μHc1=2.78(1)\mu_\circ H_{c1}=2.78(1) T. Above Hc1H_{c1}, these are replaced by woven harmonics at q1+q2=(2η,0,0)+c{\bf q}_{1}+{\bf q}_2=(2\eta, 0, 0)+{\bf c}^* until μHc2=5.42(5)\mu_\circ H_{c2}=5.42(5) T, where satellites vanish and magnetization non-linearly approaches saturation at 1.64(2) μB\mu_B/Ce for μH7\mu_\circ H\approx 7 T.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1707.01611,
  title  = {Multi-Q mesoscale magnetism in CeAuSb$_2$},
  author = {Guy G. Marcus and Dae-Jeong Kim and Jacob A. Tutmaher and Jose A. Rodriguez-Rivera and Jonas Okkels Birk and Christof Niedermeyer and Hannoh Lee and Zachary Fisk and Collin L. Broholm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.01611},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures

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