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HELICAL SCREW-TYPE MAGNETIC STRUCTURE OF THE MULTIFERROICS CaMn
7O
12W. S lawi´nski1∗, R. Przenios lo1, I. Sosnowska1, and V. Petricek2
1Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Ho˙za 69, 00–681 Warsaw, Poland
2Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Praha 8, Czech Republic
∗e-mail : wojciech@fuw.edu.pl
The modulated crystal structure and mod- ulated magnetic ordering of the multiferroic CaCuxMn7−xO12 is studied by analysing neu- tron and SR powder diffraction data with a model based on the magnetic superspace group R31’(00γ)ts. Both atomic position modulations and magnetic modulations are described with the modulation vector (0, 0, q). The magnetic ordering is a screw type circular helix where the magnetic moments are perpendicular to the c direction.
The temperature dependence of the modulation vector length and the ordered magnetic mo-
ments of Mn3+ and Mn4+ ions is given between T = 50 K and the N´eel temperature TN = 90 K. The atomic position modulation length Lp
and the magnetic modulation length Lmfulfil the re- lation Lm= 2Lp at all temperatures between 50 K and TN.
References
[1] W. S Lawi´nski, R. Przenioslo, I. Sosnowska, and V.
Petricek, Acta Crystallographica B 2012 (in press).
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