Mar, 2011
Novel Phase Transition Probed by Sound Velocity in Quasi-One-Dimensional Ising-Like Antiferromagnet BaCo2V2O8
JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
- Volume
- 80
- Number
- 3
- Language
- English
- Publishing type
- Research paper (scientific journal)
- DOI
- 10.1143/JPSJ.80.033701
- Publisher
- PHYSICAL SOC JAPAN
We have performed magnetostriction and ultrasound measurements on the quasi-one-dimensional S = 1/2 Ising-like antiferromagnet BaCo2V2O8 in high magnetic fields of up to 51 T. The magnetostriction shows lattice shrinking along the c-axis, and we interpret it as the lattice distortion caused by exchange striction and Van-Vleck paramagnetism. It is clarified that the field dependence of sound velocity is correlated to the magnetostriction. We observed a pronounced softening in the sound velocity of the longitudinal-acoustic c(33) mode and found a novel phase transition.
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- DOI : 10.1143/JPSJ.80.033701
- ISSN : 0031-9015
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000288160900003