Solving complex incommesurate magnetic structure from powder data with JANA2020 and a survey for novel Germanides

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A recent development in JANA2020 enables the users to find the most probable wave vector for solving the magnetic structures for the systems bearing a very complex magnetism. This complexity may lie with the non-collinearity of incommensurate type structures for which finding the best propagation vector is one of the biggest challenges towards solving the structure. Further, there is a chance to improve the refinement at the last stage with the randomization of magnetic moments, which can prevent the refinement to reach a false minimum and can provide with the best solution. A very complex single-k incommensurate magnetic structure was solved by following this procedure for a rare earth rich intermetallic compound.

Besides, a thorough literature review in search for some novel quantum materials suggests a few rare earth ternary germanides which are worth exploring from the point of view of their unexplored magnetism and the structural analysis both at nuclear and magnetic level.