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Uncompensated Antiferromagnetic Ordering of UAu$_2$Si$_2$ Studied by $^{29}$Si-NMR

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2018-11-14 v1

Abstract

The magnetically ordered phase of body-centered tetragonal UAu2_2Si2_2 was explored through 29^{29}Si-NMR experiments. The field-swept NMR spectra show asymmetric peak splitting below magnetic phase transition temperature, TmT_{\rm m} = 20 K. This splitting is well explained by the occurrence of a magnetic order with propagation vector of qq = (2/3, 0, 0) and magnetic moments pointing parallel to the tetragonal [001] axis, offering evidence for uncompensated "up-up-down"-type antiferromagnetic ordering with a spontaneous [001] magnetization component. A symmetry analysis of the hyperfine-coupling tensor with phenomenological corrections including orbital and dipolar-field contributions yields the magnitude of the ordered moment to be approximately 1.4 ±\pm 0.2 Bohr magneton per uranium ion, and evaluates the site-dependent hyperfine-coupling constants.

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@article{arxiv.1712.03469,
  title  = {Uncompensated Antiferromagnetic Ordering of UAu$_2$Si$_2$ Studied by $^{29}$Si-NMR},
  author = {C. Tabata and Y. Ihara and S. Shimmura and N. Miura and H. Hidaka and T. Yanagisawa and H. Amitsuka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.03469},
  year   = {2018}
}