Enumeration and tabulation of magnetic (3+d)-dimensional superspace groups
- 28 June 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) in Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
- Vol. 78 (4), 364-370
- https://doi.org/10.1107/s2053273322003898
Abstract
A magnetic superspace group (MSSG) simultaneously constrains both the magnetic and non-magnetic (e.g. displacive, occupational, rotation and strain) degrees of freedom of an incommensurately modulated magnetic crystal. We present the first enumeration and tabulation of all non-equivalent (3+d)-dimensional magnetic superspace groups for d = 1, 2 and 3 independent incommensurate modulations, along with a number, symbol and reference setting for each group. We explain the process for generating an exhaustive set of inequivalent magnetic superspace groups, describe several examples, and show how the tables can be accessed via the ISO(3+d)D interface within the ISOTROPY Software Suite. We recommend that published incommensurate magnetic structures indicate a magnetic superspace-group number and symbol from these tables, as well as the transformation matrix from the published group setting to the reference setting used in these tables.Keywords
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