1303.5100 (Lucia Steinke et al.)

The role of hyperfine coupling in magnetic and quadrupolar ordering of
Pr3Pd20Si6    [PDF]

Lucia Steinke, Keisuke Mitsumoto, Corneliu F. Miclea, Franziska Weickert, Andreas Dönni, Mitsuhiro Akatsu, Yuichi Nemoto, Terutaka Goto, Hideaki Kitazawa, Peter Thalmeier, Manuel Brando

We study the ternary clathrate Pr3Pd20Si6 in specific heat and AC-susceptibility measurements on a high-quality single crystal, distinguishing antiferromagnetic (AFM) and antiferroquadrupolar (AFQ) ordering on two sublattices of inequivalent Pr sites. The specific heat shows the direct involvement of nuclear spin degrees of freedom in the AFM ordering, which is well supported by our calculation of the hyperfine level scheme without adjustable parameters. Pr3Pd20Si6 is therefore one of the rare materials where the nuclear moments are involved in the formation of the magnetic ground state.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5100