Abstract
The 1-K phase transition in , showing up in specific-heat data within the antiferromagnetic state below ≃15 K, was investigated. Neither the average internal fields seen by the nor the magnetic and nuclear Bragg reflections in the neutron-diffraction data reflect the phase transition while the muon relaxation rates increase drastically below 1.2 K. These results are interpreted in terms of some additional small-moment magnetic order or spin-density-wave phenomenon, implying the coexistence of two rather independent electronic subsystems, one involving ‘‘heavy’’ electrons, associated with the weak magnetism, and the other associated with the ‘‘conventional’’ antiferromagnetic order.
- Received 9 July 1990
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.2454
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