Inflection point in the magnetic field dependence of the ordered moment of URu2Si2 observed by neutron scattering in fields up to 17 T.
We have measured the magnetic field dependence of the ordered antiferromagnetic moment and the magnetic excitations in the heavy-fermion superconductor URu2Si2 for fields up to 17 T applied along the tetragonal c axis, using neutron scattering. The decrease of the magnetic intensity of the tiny moment with increasing field does not follow a simple power law, but shows a clear inflection point, indicating that the moment disappears first at the metamagnetic transition at approximately 40 T. This suggests that the moment m is connected to a hidden order parameter psi which belongs to the same irreducible representation breaking time-reversal symmetry. The magnetic excitation gap at the antiferromagnetic zone center Q = (1,0,0) increases continuously with increasing field, while that at Q = (1.4,0,0) is nearly constant. This field dependence is opposite to that of the gap extracted from specific-heat data.
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Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée, SPSMS/MDN, CEA Grenoble, 38054 Grenoble, France.
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