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An intermediate state is shown to exist between the antiferromagnetic and spin-flop states of antiferromagnetic Mn${\mathrm{F}}_{2}$. This state consists of alternate thin-slab domains of antiferromagnetic and spin-flop material. Experimental evidence includes NMR, Faraday rotation, optical-absorption spectroscopy, and photographs of the domain structure. A molecular field model is used to calculate the field width of the domain region and the physical width of the domains. Reasonable numerical agreement is found.

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