Role of electronic nematicity in the complex magnetism of heavy fermion CeAuSb2: HRPD

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CeAuSb2 is a rare earth intermetallic with mesoscale spin-density wave (SDW) magnetic order below 6.6 K. Starting from a simple single-q SDW phase, application of a magnetic field triggers a metamagnetic transition to multi-q SDW order. Our transport study of the field/pressure/temperature phase diagrams suggest that these observations could be explained by an underlying electronic nematic order. Indeed, we found a weak coupling to the lattice, in previously unknown zero-field structural transitions at 200 K and 6.6 K. We aim to test our hypothesis of f-electronic nematicity through an accurate characterization of the corresponding atomic displacements and lattice distortions, using WISH and HRPD.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1920609-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/108678228
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Creator Dr Priscila Rosa; Dr Marein Rahn; Dr Marc Janoschek; Dr Alexandra Gibbs
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-11-17T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-11-18T08:32:41Z