Incommensurate Magnetic Ordered Phase with Enhanced Low-Temperature Magnetic Specific Heat in SmAu ₃ Al ₇

Neutron scattering and muon spin rotation ($μ$SR) measurements on single-crystal SmAu₃Al₇ reveal magnetically ordered states associated with successive transitions at TN = 2.8 K and T^* = 0.9 K. Magnetic Bragg peaks appear below TN with an incommensurate (IC) propagation vector q = (0.30, 0, 1.33). $μ$SR detects spontaneous internal fields below TN, and the spectral shape is consistent with the IC magnetic ordering. No anomalies are observed at T^*, indicating that the magnetic structure remains essentially unchanged below and above T^*. The magnetic order is revealed to be a spatially homogeneous long-range ordered state, rather than a partially disordered state proposed in earlier studies. The possible connection between the IC magnetic order and the enhanced low-temperature magnetic specific heat is discussed.