Browsing by Author "Balcar, E"

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    Resonant x-ray diffraction and the observation of strange quantities
    (Australian Institute of Physics, 2012-02-02) Princep, AJ; Mulders, AM; Schierle, E; Weschke, E; Hester, JR; Hutchinson, WD; Tanaka, Y; Terada, N; Narumi, Y; Staub, U; Scagnoli, V; Nakamura, T; Kikkawa, A; Lovesey, SW; Balcar, E
    Condensed matter physics has a growing reputation for providing an opportunity to observe exotic particles and states of matter that have an analogue in other areas of physics. Examples of this include the observation of Dirac strings and magnetic monopoles in spin-ice materials [1], spinon / holon separation in gated nanowires [2], and toroidal moments (anapoles) in the ubiquitous cuprates [3]. Resonant X-ray Diffraction (RXD) is well suited to the observation of a variety of quantities that behave differently under time reversal, coordinate inversion, and rotation [4]. It is possible to distinguish between competing orders and we have determined the orbital order in RB2C2, including higer order terms (as illustrated on the cover page) [5,6]
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    Triakontadipole and high-order dysprosium multipoles in the antiferromagnetic phase of DyB2C2
    (IOP Publishing Ltd., 2011-07-06) Princep, AJ; Mulders, AM; Staub, U; Scagnoli, V; Nakamura, T; Kikkawa, A; Lovesey, SW; Balcar, E
    Resonant soft x-ray Bragg diffraction at the Dy M-4,M-5 edges has been used to study Dy multipoles in the combined magnetic and orbitally ordered phase of DyB2C2. The analysis incorporates both the intra-atomic magnetic and quadrupolar interactions between the 3d core and 4f valence shells. Additionally, we introduce to the formalism the interference of magnetic and nonmagnetic oscillators. This allows a determination of the higher-order multipole moments of rank 1 (dipole) to 6 (hexacontatetrapole). The strength of the Dy 4f multipole moments have been estimated as being up to 80% of the quadrupolar moment.(c) 2011 IOP Publishing LTD