Incommensurate magnetic structure in the cubic noncentrosymmetric ternary compound Pr5Ru3Al2

Abstract

Magnetic susceptibility and neutron powder diffraction experiments have been performed on the noncentrosymmetric ternary compound Pr5Ru3Al2. The previously reported ferromagnetic transition at 24 K was not detected in our improved-quality samples. Instead, magnetic ordering was observed in the DC magnetic susceptibility at Tc≃3.8 K. The neutron powder diffraction experiment further indicates that an incommensurate magnetic structure is established below Tc with the magnetic modulation vector q≃(0.066,0.066,0.066) ©2016 The Physical Society of Japan