Magnetoelastic coupling and symmetry breaking in the frustrated antiferromagnet alpha-NaMnO2.
The magnetic and crystal structures of the alpha-NaMnO2 have been determined by high-resolution neutron powder diffraction. The system maps out a frustrated triangular spin lattice with anisotropic interactions that displays two-dimensional spin correlations below 200 K. Magnetic frustration is lift...
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| 格式: | Journal article |
| 语言: | English |
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2007
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| 总结: | The magnetic and crystal structures of the alpha-NaMnO2 have been determined by high-resolution neutron powder diffraction. The system maps out a frustrated triangular spin lattice with anisotropic interactions that displays two-dimensional spin correlations below 200 K. Magnetic frustration is lifted through magneto-elastic coupling, evidenced by strong anisotropic broadening of the diffraction profiles at high temperature and ultimately by a structural phase transition at 45 K. In this low-temperature regime a three-dimensional antiferromagnetic state is observed with a propagation vector k=(1/2,1/2,0). |
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