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Symmetry of magnetic structures: the case of CeAl2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2007

J. Schweizer ,
J. Villain  and
A. B. Harris
J. Schweizer*
Affiliation:
Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée D.S.M., Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, 17 avenue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
J. Villain
Affiliation:
Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée D.S.M., Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, 17 avenue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
A. B. Harris
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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[email protected]
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Abstract

This article presents a group-theoretical investigation of an incommensurate magnetic structure in the case where the crystal structure is centrosymmetric while the structure vector k is not conserved by inversion. A first method starts with the conventional group-theoretical treatment taking into account the transformations which conserve kand then combines the solutions to obtain a centrosymmetric and real magnetization. A second method includes inversion in the group-theoretical treatment, for instance by introducing the complex conjugation operator and corepresentations. The general theory is applied to CeAl2 with the scope of improving the knowledge of its magnetic structure.

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The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , April 2007 , pp. 41 - 46
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© EDP Sciences, 2007

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