Magnetic Field Induced 4f Octupole in CeB6 Probed by Resonant X-Ray Diffraction

Physical Review Letters Volume 103 Issue 1 Page 017203-1-017203-4 published_at 2009-07-02
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Magnetic Field Induced 4f Octupole in CeB6 Probed by Resonant X-Ray Diffraction
Creator
Yonemura Takumi
Kunimori Keisuke
Iga Fumitoshi
Source Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume 103
Issue 1
Start Page 017203-1
End Page 017203-4
Abstract
A mysterious antiferroquadrupolar ordered phase of CeB6 is considered as originating from the T xyz -type magnetic octupole moment in magnetic fields. By resonant x-ray diffraction, we have verified that the T xyz -type octupole is indeed induced in the 4f orbital of Ce with a propagation vector (1/2, 1/2, 1/2), thereby supporting the theory. We observed an asymmetric field dependence of the intensity for an electric quadrupole (E2) resonance when the field was reversed and extracted a field dependence of the octupole by utilizing the interference with an electric dipole (E1) resonance. The result is in good agreement with that of the NMR-line splitting, which reflects the transferred hyperfine field at the boron nucleus from the anisotropic spin distribution of Ce with an O xy -type quadrupole.
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Physics [ 420 ]
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eng
Resource Type journal article
Publisher
American Physical Society
Date of Issued 2009-07-02
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Copyright (c) 2009 The American Physical Society
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Access Rights open access
Source Identifier
[ISSN] 0031-9007
[NCID] AA00773679
[DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.017203
[DOI] http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.017203