- Jiří Pospíšil: Magnetism and magnetic phase diagrams of uranium TiNiSi-type UTGe compounds and their substituted systems
- 13. 11. 2019, 14:10
- lecture room F2, first floor Ke Karlovu 5
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Abstract:
Uranium intermetallics with 5f electrons at the boundary between localized and itinerant character are of continuing interest. Recent studies of the TiNiSi-type UTGe compounds found their magnetism scaling according to the Hill criterion1. Just in the vicinity of the Hill criterion ferromagnetic superconductors (FM SC) URhGe2 and UCoGe3 were discovered. Our intensive research in this field was focused on another intriguing compound UIrGe. Although UIrGe has an almost identical the nearest interatomic uranium-uranium distance with URhGe already orders antiferromagnetically4 with Néel temperature TN = 16.5 K. The magnetic structure of UIrGe consists of FM zig-zag chains along the a axis resembling the magnetic structures of the FM UCoGe and URhGe. The FM chains are antiferomagnetically coupled. A spin-flop transition is induced in a magnetic field of Hc,crit = 14 T applied along the c axis. A similar spin flop mechanism was also detected for the magnetization along the b axis at Hb,crit = 21 T. Then, the b axis becomes the easy magnetization axis, similar to the magnetic behavior of FM URhGe. Here, Liftshitz-type transition and enhancement of the coefficient g is observed5, 6 accompanied by restored SC state.
The subject of the seminar is to summarize magnetic properties, phase diagrams and quantum critical phenomena in the parent compounds of the TiNiSi-type UTGe compounds particularly UIrGe under the high pressure7 and magnetic field8 as well as related substituted systems UT11-xT2xGe (T = Co, Rh, Ir, Ru)1, 9-11 which revealed interesting PM/FM/AFM phase boundaries at low temperatures. Our extensive single crystal study has allowed us to draw a general picture of the magnetism in the TiNiSi-type UT11-xT2xGe systems.
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