論文

査読有り
2003年3月

Correlation between the structural and antiferromagnetic phase transitions in ZnCr2Se4

PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI B-BASIC RESEARCH
  • M Hidaka
  • ,
  • N Tokiwa
  • ,
  • M Fujii
  • ,
  • S Watanabe
  • ,
  • J Akimitsu

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開始ページ
9
終了ページ
18
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1002/pssb.200301502
出版者・発行元
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH

Structural properties of normal-type spinel ZnCr2Se4 have been studied as a function of temperature by means of neutron diffraction. It is found that the structural phase transition (T-C) from a cubic to orthorhombic symmetry simultaneously occurs at the antiferromagnetic phase transition temperature (T-N similar to 21 K), where the cubic and orthorhombic symmetry is O-7(h)-Fd3m and D-24(2h)-Fddd, respectively. The structural phase transition is mainly characterized by the cooperative displacements of Se2- ions, which are induced by a magnetostriction resulting from the magnetic interaction of Cr3+ ions in CrSe4 chains along [110]. The antiferromagnetic magnetic structure below TN is made by a spiral magnetic coupling between the ferromagnetic CrSe4 chains around crystallographic screw axes, which are parallel to an orthorhombic C axis. The spiral long-range order of the spins of Cr3+ is incommensurate and its periodicity of q along a reciprocal lattice axis C* shows temperature dependence from about 0.47 (2.5 K) to 0.43 (18 K). The spiral periodicity of the spin order along the C axis shows a first order transition at about 21 K.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/pssb.200301502
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000181478400002&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1002/pssb.200301502
  • ISSN : 0370-1972
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000181478400002

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