Magnetic structure and critical behavior of GdRhIn$_{5}$: resonant x-ray diffraction and renormalization group analysis

Details Magnetic structure and critical behavior of GdRhIn$_{5}$: resonant x-ray diffraction and renormalization group analysis Magnetic structure and critical behavior of GdRhIn$_{5}$: resonant x-ray diffraction and renormalization group analysis

2006-07-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607140v1

Phys. Rev. B 74, 214428 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

22 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.214428

The magnetic structure and fluctuations of tetragonal GdRhIn5 were studied by resonant x-ray diffraction at the Gd LII and LIII edges, followed by a renormalization group analysis for this and other related Gd-based compounds, namely Gd2IrIn8 and GdIn3. These compounds are spin-only analogs of the isostructural Ce-based heavy-fermion superconductors. The ground state of GdRhIn5 shows a commensurate antiferromagnetic spin structure with propagation vector tau = (0,1/2, 1/2), corresponding to a parallel spin alignment along the a-direction and antiparallel alignment along b and c. A comparison between this magnetic structure and those of other members of the Rm(Co,Rh,Ir)n In3m+2n family (R =rare earth, n = 0, 1; m = 1, 2) indicates that, in general, tau is determined by a competition between first-(J1) and second-neighbor(J2) antiferromagnetic (AFM) interactions. While a large J1 /J2 ratio favors an antiparallel alignment along the three directions (the so-called G-AFM structure), a smaller ratio favors the magnetic structure of GdRhIn5 (C-AFM). In particular, it is inferred that the heavy-fermion superconductor CeRhIn5 is in a frontier between these two ground states, which may explain its non-collinear spiral magnetic structure. The critical behavior of GdRhIn5 close to the paramagnetic transition at TN = 39 K was also studied in detail. A typical second-order transition with the ordered magnetization critical parameter beta = 0.35 was experimentally found, and theoretically investigated by means of a renormalization group analysis.

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