JPSJ News Comments 11, 15 (2014) [2 Pages]

Order Having Disorder in a New Samarium Compound

Kengo Fushiya, Tatsuma D. Matsuda, Ryuji Higashinaka, Kazuhiro Akiyama, Yuji Aoki
J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 83,  113708 (2014).

+ Affiliations
Department of Materials Science and Technology, Niigata University

An atypical magnetic order was discovered in single crystals of the new Sm compound SmPt2Si2. The bulk measurements indicate that the majority of the Sm moments remains disordered in the magnetically ordered phase.

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