P. Link et al., NEUTRON-DIFFRACTION STUDY OF QUADRUPOLAR ORDER IN TMTE - FIRST EVIDENCE FOR A FIELD-INDUCED MAGNETIC SUPERSTRUCTURE, Physical review letters, 80(21), 1998, pp. 4779-4782
The intriguing phase transition discovered recently in TmTe at T-Q = 1
.8 K is characterized as antiferroquadrupolar by neutron diffraction.
In an applied magnetic field, the underlying ordered structure of the
Tm quadrupole moments is disclosed by the appearance of an antiferroma
gnetic component of the magnetic dipole moments. This induced structur
e is described by the wave Vector k = (1/2, 1/2, 1/2) for both field d
irections H parallel to (111) and H parallel to (001), but the stagger
ed component mu(AF), oriented along a twofold cubic axis normal to the
field, is much stronger (about 1.5 mu(B)) in the former case.