Prokes, K.; Gorbunov, D.I.; Reehuis, M.; Klemke, B.; Gukasov, A.; Uhlirova, K.; Fabreges, X.; Skourski, Y.; Yokaichiya, F.; Hartwig, S.; Andreev, A.V.: Anisotropic physical properties of single-crystal U2Rh2Sn in high magnetic fields. Physical Review B 95 (2017), p. 174433/1-12
10.1103/PhysRevB.95.174433
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Abstract:
We report on the crystal and magnetic structures,magnetic, transport, and thermal properties of U2Rh2Sn single crystals studied in part in high magnetic fields up to 58 T. The material adopts a U3Si2-related tetragonal crystal structure and orders antiferromagnetically below TN = 25 K. The antiferromagnetic structure is characterized by a propagation vector k = (0,0,1/2). The magnetism in U2Rh2Sn is found to be associated mainly with 5f states. However, both unpolarized and polarized neutron experiments reveal at low temperatures in zero field non-negligible magnetic moments also on Rh sites. U moments of 0.50(2) μB are directed along the tetragonal axis while Rh moments of 0.06(4) μB form a noncollinear arrangement confined to the basal plane. The response to applied magnetic field is highly anisotropic. Above ∼15 K the easy magnetization direction is along the tetragonal axis. At lower temperatures, however, a stronger response is found perpendicular to the c axis. While for the a axis no magnetic phase transition is observed up to 58 T, for the field applied at 1.8 K along the tetragonal axis we observe above 22.5 T a field-polarized state. A magnetic phase diagram for the field applied along the c axis is presented.