Cadogan J M, Ryan D H, Susilo R A, Muñoz Pérez S, Cobas R, Lee-Hone N R, Hansen B R, Avdeev M
School of Science, UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, ACT, BC 2610, Australia.
Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T8, Canada.
Acta Crystallogr B Struct Sci Cryst Eng Mater. 2024 Oct 1;80(Pt 5):443-450. doi: 10.1107/S205252062400862X. Epub 2024 Sep 30.
The magnetic structure of the intermetallic compound ErGa has been determined using high-resolution neutron powder diffraction. This compound crystallizes in the orthorhombic (Cmcm, No. 63) CrB-type structure and orders ferromagnetically at 32 (2) K, with the Er moments initially aligned along the b axis. Upon cooling below 16 K, the Er magnetic moments cant away from the b axis towards the c axis. At 3 K, the Er moment is 8.7 (3) μ and the Er magnetic moments point in the direction 31 (3)° away from the crystallographic b axis, within the bc plane. Er Mössbauer spectroscopy work supports this structure and shows clear signals of the spin-reorientation in both the magnetic and electric quadrupole hyperfine interactions.
