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Structural Transition in the Hidden Ordered Phase of CeCoSi

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2022-05-12 v1

Abstract

We have performed X-ray diffraction experiments on a single crystalline CeCoSi to investigate the unresolved ordered phase below T012T_0 \sim 12 K. We have discovered that a triclinic lattice distortion takes place below T0T_0, which is further modified in the subsequent antiferromagnetic ordered phase. The structural domains can be selected by applying a magnetic field, indicating that some electronic ordering exists behind and affects the magnetic anisotropy in the hidden ordered phase below T0T_0. The transition at T0T_0, although the order parameter is still unknown, is associated with the maximum in the cc-axis lattice parameter. In magnetic fields along [1,0,0][1, 0, 0], the structural transition temperature, named as Ts1T_{\text{s1}}, deviates from T0T_0 and decreases with increasing the field, whereas T0T_0 increases. This shows that the hidden ordered phase without triclinic distortion exists between Ts1T_{\text{s1}} and T0T_0. The results for H[1,1,0]H \parallel [1, 1, 0] are also reported.

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@article{arxiv.2203.03879,
  title  = {Structural Transition in the Hidden Ordered Phase of CeCoSi},
  author = {Takeshi Matsumura and Suguru Kishida and Mitsuru Tsukagoshi and Yukihiro Kawamura and Hironori Nakao and Hiroshi Tanida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.03879},
  year   = {2022}
}

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8 pages, 10 figures, 12 figures in the supplemental material, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jpn

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