Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2012-01-13
J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 24(18) 186002 (2012)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
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Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/24/18/186002
The candidate magnetoelectric Pb3Mn7O15 has a structure consisting of 1/3 filled Kagome layers linked by ribbons of edge-sharing octahedra in the stacking direction. Previous reports have indicated a complex hexagonal-orthorhombic structural transition upon cooling to room temperature, although its origins are uncertain. Here both structures are revisited using a combination of neutron and synchrotron X-ray diffraction data. Large shifts of oxygen positions are detected which show that the interlayer sites and those which occupy voids in the kagome lattice are trivially charge ordered in both phases. The symmetry breaking is found to occur due to Mn3+ orbital ordering on the ribbon sites and charge ordering of the sub-set of layer sites which make up a Kagome network.
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