Observation of Modulated Quadrupolar Structures in PrPb3

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2005-04-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0504625v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Physical Review Letters, in press. 4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.197201

Neutron diffraction measurements have been performed on the cubic compound PrPb3 in a [001] magnetic field to examine the quadrupolar ordering. Antiferromagnetic components with q=(1/2+-d 1/2 0), (1/2 1/2+-d 0) (d~1/8) are observed below the transition temperature TQ (0.4 K at H=0) whose amplitudes vary linear with H and vanish at zero field, providing the first evidence for a modulated quadrupolar phase. For H<1 T, a non-square modulated state persists even below 100 mK suggesting quadrupole moments associated with a Gamma3 doublet ground state to be partially quenched by hybridization with conduction electrons.

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