Magnetoelastic and thermal effects in the BiMn2O5 lattice: a high-resolution x-ray diffraction study

Details Magnetoelastic and thermal effects in the BiMn2O5 lattice: a high-resolution x-ray diffraction study Magnetoelastic and thermal effects in the BiMn2O5 lattice: a high-resolution x-ray diffraction study

2007-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/0711.4742v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

23 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.77.134101

High-resolution synchrotron x-ray diffraction measurements were performed on single crystalline and powder samples of BiMn2O5. A linear temperature dependence of the unit cell volume was found between T_{N}=38$ K and 100 K, suggesting that a low-energy lattice excitation may be responsible for the lattice expansion in this temperature range. Between T* ~ 65 K and T_{N}, all lattice parameters showed incipient magnetoelastic effects, due to short-range spin correlations. An anisotropic strain along the a-direction was also observed below T*. Below T_{N}, a relatively large contraction of the a-parameter following the square of the average sublattice magnetization of Mn was found, indicating that a second-order spin hamiltonian accounts for the magnetic interactions along this direction. On the other hand, the more complex behaviors found for $b$ and $c$ suggest additional magnetic transitions below T_{N} and perhaps higher-order terms in the spin hamiltonian. Polycrystalline samples grown by distinct routes and with nearly homogeneous crystal structure above T_{N} presented structural phase coexistence below T_{N}, indicating a close competition amongst distinct magnetostructural states in this compound.

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