Possible observation of Kondo screening cloud in Yb14MnSb11

Single crystals of the underscreened Kondo ferromagnet Yb14MnSb11 were investigated using polarised neutron diffraction and magnetisation measurements. The magnitude and direction of the magnetisation at each of the 9 distinct crystallographic sites was measured using polarised neutron diffraction. A large moment of close to 4.2??(B) was found at the unique Mn site. A compensating antiferromagnetic moment of ??0.5??(B) was found to be distributed uniformly among the remaining Yb and Sb sites, which was not expected from a previous theoretical calculation. The compensating magnetisation, however, is consistent both in size and magnitude with the expected Kondo screening cloud.