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ErCo₂Si₂

MAGNDATA entry 1.516 · source

antiferromagnet

No net magnetisation, and up and down sublattices are related by a shift or by inversion, so the bands stay spin-degenerate: a conventional antiferromagnet.

Spin group ¹4/¹m¹m¹m × ²1: each symmetry marked ¹ keeps every spin, ² swaps up and down.

ordered ≤ 11 K (−262 °C)Colour: where that sits relative to 25 °C. Saturation: how much margin it has.

Structure · 10 properties

Magnetic group	P_I n n m BNS 58.404
Parent space group	I 4/m m m No. 139
Spins	collinear · net moment 0 μ_B per cell
Propagation	[1 1 1] 1k
Cell	a 3.892 · b 3.892 · c 9.779 Å · α 90° · β 90° · γ 90°
Transition	11 K (−262 °C)
Measured at	4.2 K
Magnetic ions	Er
Largest moment component	8.7 μ_B
Method	NPD

Symmetry

Stereogram of the magnetic point group: each operation applied to one direction. Filled = upper hemisphere, ring = lower; red operations include time reversal. Lines are mirrors; polygons are 2/3/4/6-fold axes; the centre ring is inversion.

Every structure in P_I n n m →

Atom sites · 3 sites · CSV

site	element	y	z	m_a	m_b	m_c	\|m\| (μ_B)
Er1	Er	0	0	8.7	0	0	8.7
Co1	Co	0.5	0.25
Si1	Si	0	0.3896

Moment components are along the crystal axes a, b, c (μ_B), as magCIF writes them. Symmetry generates the rest of the cell from these sites.

Source

J. Leciejewicz et al. Solid State Communications (1983) · doi:10.1016/0038-1098(83)90363-0

Cite the original paper and MAGNDATA, not this mirror.

Original file

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