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Jul, 2008

Ultrasonic investigation of off-center rattling in filled skutterudite compound NdOs4Sb12

JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
  • Tatsuya Yanagisawa
  • ,
  • Pei-Chun Ho
  • ,
  • William M. Yuhasz
  • ,
  • M. Brian Maple
  • ,
  • Yuri Yasumoto
  • ,
  • Hiromu Watanabe
  • ,
  • Yuichi Nemoto
  • ,
  • Terutaka Goto

Volume
77
Number
7
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1143/JPSJ.77.074607
Publisher
PHYSICAL SOC JAPAN

The off-center rattling of Nd rare-earth ions in the filled skutterudite compound NdOs4Sb12 has been investigated by ultrasonic measurement. The longitudinal C-11 mode for frequencies between 34 and 253MHz shows a marked frequency dependence in elastic constant and ultrasonic attenuations at two different temperatures centered at around 45 and 15K. The relaxational frequency dependence of ultrasonic dispersion reveals a thermally activated Gamma(23)-type off-center motion of Nd-ions, involving local charge fluctuations with Gamma(23) symmetry in the (OsSb3)(4) cage. An attempt time tau(0,(1)) = 7.5 x 10(-12) s and an activation energy E-1 = 337 K were obtained from fits to the dispersion at around 45 K. The presence of another dispersion at lower temperatures of around 15 K implies that the rattling in NdOs4Sb12 has an additional low-energy excitation characterized by a lower activation energy E-2 similar to 67 K with an attempt time tau(0,(2)) = 5.1 x 10(-11) s.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.77.074607
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000257833400032&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1143/JPSJ.77.074607
  • ISSN : 0031-9015
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000257833400032

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