Low temperature hcp to monoclinic structural transition in solid C$_{70}$ : Is there an intermediate phase?"

Details Low temperature hcp to monoclinic structural transition in solid C$_{70}$ : Is there an intermediate phase?" Low temperature hcp to monoclinic structural transition in solid C$_{70}$ : Is there an intermediate phase?"

1998-08-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9808232v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

ReVTex (4 pages), 4 eps figures, accepted in Phys. Rev. B, minor changes in the title as well as in text

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.58.14094

We follow the structural transformation in solid C$_{70}$ from the high temperature hcp to a low temperature monoclinic phase using x-ray diffraction studies at controlled cooling-rates from 0.0033 to 0.42 K/min. Rapid cooling of the sample gives the signature of a two-step transformation which disappears when the system is transformaed quasi-statically. These experimental results can be rationalised using a simple mean field, Langevin dynamical theory using a free energy functional with minima corresponding to the parent and two competing product phases such that one of these product phases remains metastable throughout. The implication of our results on the existence of the intermediate phase in the sequence, hcp-dhcp-monoclinic, of structural transitions in solid C$_{70}$ with the lowering of temperature is discussed.

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