Evidence for weak itinerant long-range magnetic correlations in UGe2

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Sep 30;89(14):147001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.147001. Epub 2002 Sep 11.

Abstract

Positive muon spin relaxation measurements performed on the ferromagnet UGe2 reveal, in addition to the well-known localized 5f-electron density responsible for the bulk magnetic properties, the existence of itinerant quasistatic magnetic correlations. Their critical dynamics is well described by the conventional dipolar Heisenberg model. These correlations involve small magnetic moments.