Magnetic ordering in GdNi2B2C revisited by resonant x-ray scattering: Evidence 
for the double-q model

Normile, P. S.; Rotter, M.; Detlefs, C.; Jensen, J.; Canfield, P. C.; Blanco, J. A.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.88.054413

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Magnetic ordering in GdNi2B2C revisited by resonant x-ray scattering: Evidence for the double-q model

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Rotter, M.
Martin Rotter, Physics of Correlated Matter, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Normile, P. S., Rotter, M., Detlefs, C., Jensen, J., Canfield, P. C., & Blanco, J. A. (2013). Magnetic ordering in GdNi2B2C revisited by resonant x-ray scattering: Evidence for the double-q model. Physical Review B, 88(5): 054413, pp. 054413-1-054413-7. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.88.054413.

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Recent theoretical efforts aimed at understanding the nature of antiferromagnetic ordering in GdNi2B2C predicted double-q ordering. Here we employ resonant elastic x-ray scattering to test this theory against the formerly proposed, single-q ordering scenario. Our study reveals a satellite reflection associated with a mixed-order component propagation wave vector, viz., (q(a),2q(b), 0) with q(b) = q(a) approximate to 0.55 reciprocal lattice units, the presence of which is incompatible with single-q ordering but is expected from the double-q model. A (3q(a),0,0) wave vector (i.e., third-order) satellite is also observed, again in line with the double-q model. The temperature dependencies of these along with that of a first-order satellite are compared with calculations based on the double-q model and reasonable qualitative agreement is found. By examining the azimuthal dependence of first-order satellite scattering, we show the magnetic order to be, as predicted, elliptically polarized at base temperature and find the temperature dependence of the "out of a-b plane" moment component to be in fairly good agreement with calculation. Our results provide qualitative support for the double-q model and thus in turn corroborate the explanation for the "magnetoelastic paradox" offered by this model.