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Specific features of magnetic order in a multiferroic compound CuCrO2 determined using NMR and NQR data for 63, 65Cu nuclei

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Results of studying the paramagnetic and ordered phases of a CuCrO2 single crystal using nuclear magnetic and nuclear quadrupole resonances on 63,65Cu nuclei are presented. The measurements have been carried out in wide ranges of temperature (T = 4.2–300 K) and magnetic-field strength (Н = 0–94 kOe), with the magnetic fields being directed along a and c axes of the crystal. The components of the electric-field gradient tensor and the magnetic-shift tensor (K a,c) have been determined. The temperature dependences K a(H || a) and K c(H || c) for the paramagnetic phase are described by the Curie–Weiss law and reproduce the behavior of the magnetic susceptibility (χa,c). The hyperfine field on a copper nucleus has been determined, which is equal to h a,c hf = 33 kOe/μB. Below the temperature Т N = 23.6 K, nuclear magnetic resonance and nuclear quadrupole resonance spectra for 63,65Cu nuclei have been recorded typical of helical magnetic structures, which are incommensurable with the lattice period.

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  1. Institute of Metal Physics, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, 620990, Russia

    A. G. Smol’nikov, V. V. Ogloblichev, S. V. Verkhovskii, K. N. Mikhalev, Yu. V. Piskunov & A. F. Sadykov

  2. Ames Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011, USA

    V. V. Ogloblichev & Y. Furukawa

  3. National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, pl. Kurchatova 1, Moscow, 123182, Russia

    A. Yu. Yakubovskii

  4. Institute of Solid State and Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, ul. P. Brovki 19, Minsk, 220072, Belarus

    S. N. Barilo & S. V. Shiryaev

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Original Russian Text © A.G. Smol’nikov, V.V. Ogloblichev, S.V. Verkhovskii, K.N. Mikhalev, A.Yu. Yakubovskii, Y. Furukawa, Yu.V. Piskunov, A.F. Sadykov, S.N. Barilo, S.V. Shiryaev, 2017, published in Fizika Metallov i Metallovedenie, 2017, Vol. 118, No. 2, pp. 142–150.

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Smol’nikov, A.G., Ogloblichev, V.V., Verkhovskii, S.V. et al. Specific features of magnetic order in a multiferroic compound CuCrO2 determined using NMR and NQR data for 63, 65Cu nuclei. Phys. Metals Metallogr. 118, 134–142 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031918X17020120

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