Abstract

Structural studies by means of powder X-ray diffraction and single-crystal neutron diffraction show that URhGe crystallizes in the orthorhombic TiNiSi-type of structure. Combined magnetic, electrical-transport and thermal studies performed for the first time on a single crystal confirm ferromagnetic order of URhGe below 9.6 K. In contrast to previous powder neutron-diffraction experiments, our single-crystal results point to collinear ferromagnetic order of U moments of 0.35±0.08 μ B confined to the b–c plane, i.e. with no component along the a-axis, which is the hard-magnetization direction in URhGe. Our findings regarding the magnetic properties are in good agreement with theoretical first-principle calculations.

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