Structural modulations in $Sr_{14} Cu_{24} O_{41}$ and their relation to charge ordering

Details Structural modulations in $Sr_{14} Cu_{24} O_{41}$ and their relation to charge ordering Structural modulations in $Sr_{14} Cu_{24} O_{41}$ and their relation to charge ordering

2004-06-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406215v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

7 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

Structural properties of the spin chain and ladder compound Sr$_{14}$Cu$_{24}$O$_{41}$ have been studied using diffraction with hard x-rays. Strong incommensurate modulation reflections are observed due to the lattice mismatch of the chain and ladder structure, respectively. While modulation reflections of low orders display only a weak temperature independence, higher orders dramatically increase in intensity when cooling the sample to 10 K. All observed modulation reflections are indexed within the super space group symmetry and no structural phase transition could be identified between 10 K and room temperature. We argue that these modulation reflections are not caused by a five-fold periodicity of the chain lattice, as claimed by Fukuda et al. Phys. Rev. B 66, 012104 (2002), but that holes localize in the potential given by the lattice modulation, which in turn gives rise to a further deformation of the lattice.

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