Abstract
Neutron scattering is the most powerful tool for the detailed study of magnetic structures and is an essential step in understanding underlying physical phenomena occurring in complex magnetic materials. The main goal of this chapter is to expose the reader to the current state of how magnetic structures are determined using neutron diffraction and how they are described. The chapter includes a short history of the beginnings of magnetic structure determination, theoretical and practical aspects in determining magnetic structures, and offers important examples of magnetic structures hierarchized on the basis of the dimensionality of magnetic correlations determined by the underlying crystal structure. The selected examples range from simple ferro- and antiferromagnetic orders to the more complex helical and conical spiral orders, commensurate and incommensurate.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Neutron Scattering - Magnetic and Quantum Phenomena, 2015 |
Editors | Felix Fernandez-Alonso, Felix Fernandez-Alonso, David L. Price |
Publisher | Academic Press |
Pages | 203-290 |
Number of pages | 88 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780128020494 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2015 |
Publication series
Name | Experimental Methods in the Physical Sciences |
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Volume | 48 |
ISSN (Print) | 1079-4042 |
Funding
The authors completed this work while employed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory which is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract No. DE-AC0500OR22725, and were sponsored by the Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy .
Keywords
- Disordered magnetic structures
- Magnetic space-groups
- Magnetic structures
- Neutron diffraction
- Representation analysis