Resolving structural changes and symmetry lowering in spinel FeCr2S4
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DONALD, M. Evans, GRENDAL, Ola G., , , , , , , GEGENWART, Philipp, GHARA, Somnath, DEISENHOFER, Joachim, KEZSMARKI, Istvan, TSURKAN, Vladimir. Resolving structural changes and symmetry lowering in spinel FeCr2S4. In: Physical Review B, 2022, vol. 105, p. 0. ISSN 2469-9950. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.174107
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Physical Review B
Volumul 105 / 2022 / ISSN 2469-9950 /ISSNe 2469-9969

Resolving structural changes and symmetry lowering in spinel FeCr2S4

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.174107

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Donald M. Evans1, Grendal Ola G.2, 3, 4, 4, Gegenwart Philipp4, Ghara Somnath4, Deisenhofer Joachim4, Kezsmarki Istvan4, Tsurkan Vladimir43
 
1 Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, University of Augsburg,
2 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble,
3 Institute of Applied Physics,
4 University of Augsburg
 
 
Disponibil în IBN: 19 noiembrie 2022


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The cubic spinel FeCr2S4 has been receiving immense research interest because of its emergent phases and the interplay of spin, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedom. Despite the intense research, several fundamental questions are yet to be answered, such as the refinement of the crystal structure in the different magnetic and orbital ordered phases. Here, using high-resolution synchrotron powder diffraction on stoichiometric crystals of FeCr2S4 we resolved the long sought-after cubic to tetragonal transition at ∼65K, reducing the lattice symmetry to I41/amd. With further lowering the temperature, at ∼9K, the crystal structure becomes polar, hence the compound becomes multiferroic—likely reducing the space group to I41md. The elucidation of the lattice symmetry throughout different phases of FeCr2S4 provides a basis for the understanding this enigmatic system and also highlights the importance of structural deformation in correlated materials.

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Binary alloys, Crystal symmetry, Degrees of freedom (mechanics)