Magnetoelastic coupling in investigated with diffraction techniques and thermal expansion measurements
- 4 June 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 75 (22), 224402
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.75.224402
Abstract
A detailed analysis of the crystal structure in with , Nd, Sm, Gd, and Y reveals an intrinsic coupling between orbital degrees of freedom and the lattice which cannot be fully attributed to the structural deformation arising from bond-length mismatch. The octahedra in this series are all irregular with the shape of the distortion depending on the rare-earth ionic radius. These octahedron distortions vary more strongly with temperature than the tilt and rotation angles. Around the Ti magnetic ordering all compounds exhibit strong anomalies in the thermal-expansion coefficients, these anomalies exhibiting opposite signs for antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic compounds. Furthermore, the strongest effects are observed in materials close to the magnetic crossover from antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic order.
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