Structural Disorder and Properties of the Stuffed Pyrochlore Ho2TiO5

Details Structural Disorder and Properties of the Stuffed Pyrochlore Ho2TiO5 Structural Disorder and Properties of the Stuffed Pyrochlore Ho2TiO5

2007-05-11

arxiv.org/abs/0705.1703v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

submitted to Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.76.054430

We report a structural and thermodynamic study of the "stuffed spin ice" material Ho2TiO5 (i.e., Ho2(Ti1.33Ho0.67)O6.67), comparing samples synthesized through two different routes. Neutron powder diffraction and electron diffraction reveal that the previously reported defect fluorite phase has short-range pyrochlore ordering, in that there are domains in which the Ho and Ho/Ti sublattices are distinct. By contrast, a sample prepared through a floating zone method has long range ordering of these sublattices. Despite the differences in crystal structures, the two versions of Ho2TiO5 display similar magnetic susceptibilities. Field dependent magnetization and measured recovered entropies, however, show a difference between the two forms, suggesting that the magnetic properties of the stuffed pyrochlores depend on the local structure.

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