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Open AccessConfirming the trilinear form of the optical magnetoelectric effect in the polar honeycomb antiferromagnet Co2Mo3O8
Magnetoelectric phenomena are intimately linked to relativistic effects and also require the material to break spatial inversion symmetry and time-reversal invariance. Magnetoelectric coupling can substantiall...
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Open AccessGiant conductivity of mobile non-oxide domain walls
Atomically sharp domain walls in ferroelectrics are considered as an ideal platform to realize easy-to-reconfigure nanoelectronic building blocks, created, manipulated and erased by external fields. However, c...
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Pressure-Induced Semiconductor-Semimetal Transition in Rb0.8Fe1.6S2
The transport and magnetic properties of the Rb0.8Fe1.6S2 crystal have been studied under quasihydrostatic compression to a pressure of 40.5 GPa in diamond anvil cells. A semiconductor-semimetal electronic transi...
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DFT and Mössbauer Spectroscopy Study of a FeTe0.5Se0.5 Single Crystal
The iron based superconductor FeSe0.5Te0.5 has been studied applying Mössbauer spectroscopy and ab initio density functional theory calculations of hyperfine parameters of iron nuclei. It has been shown that the ...
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Open AccessEquilibrium Skyrmion Lattice Ground State in a Polar Easy-plane Magnet
The skyrmion lattice state (SkL), a crystal built of mesoscopic spin vortices, gains its stability via thermal fluctuations in all bulk skyrmion host materials known to date. Therefore, its existence is limite...
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Magnetic properties of chain antiferromagnets RbFeSe2, TlFeSe2, and TlFeS2
Single crystals of ternary ion chalcogenides RbFeSe2, TlFeSe2, and TlFeS2 are studied by X-ray diffraction, SQUID magnetometry, and Mössbauer spectroscopy. Common structural units of these chalcogenides are tetra...
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Néel-type skyrmion lattice with confined orientation in the polar magnetic semiconductor GaV4S8
Following the early prediction of the skyrmion lattice (SkL)—a periodic array of spin vortices—it has been observed recently in various magnetic crystals mostly with chiral structure. Although non-chiral but p...
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Open AccessFeCr2S4 in magnetic fields: possible evidence for a multiferroic ground state
We report on neutron diffraction, thermal expansion, magnetostriction, dielectric and specific heat measurements on polycrystalline FeCr2S4 in external magnetic fields. The ferrimagnetic ordering temperatures TC ...
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Orbital-selective metal–insulator transition and gap formation above TC in superconducting Rb1−xFe2−ySe2
Understanding the origin of high-temperature superconductivity in copper- and iron-based materials is one of the outstanding tasks of current research in condensed matter physics. Even the normal metallic stat...
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Absence of polar order in LuFe2O4
LuFe2O4 often is considered as a prototypical multiferroic with polar order arising from the electronic degrees of freedom only (“electronic ferroelectricity”). In the present work, we check the intrinsic nature ...
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Superconductivity at Tc = 44 K in LixFe2Se2(NH3)y
Following a recent proposal by Burrard-Lucas et al. [ar**v:1203.5046] we intercalated FeSe with Li in liquid ammonia. We report on the synthesis of new Li x Fe2Se2(NH3) ...
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Spin re-orientation in FeCr2S4
The spinel FeCr2S4has been studied intensely for its peculiar magnetic and local structural changes which are sensitively influenced by the Jahn–Teller properties of Fe2 + in tetrahedral sulfur coordination. Rece...
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Physical properties of FeSe0.5Te0.5 single crystals grown under different conditions
We report on structural, magnetic, conductivity, and thermodynamic studies of FeSe0.5Te0.5 single crystals grown by self-flux and Bridgman methods. The lowest values of the susceptibility in the normal state, th...
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Frustration driven magnetic states of A-site spinels probed by μSR
The normal A-site spinels MnAl2O4, FeAl2O4, CoAl2O4, as well as related mixed (Mn0.5Fe0.5Al2O4) and partially inverted (Fe1.4Al1.6O4) spinels have been studied by μSR. The magnetic ions are subject to magnetic fr...
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Lattice Instabilities in the Frustrated Magnet CdCr2O4: An Ultrasonic Study
We report results on ultrasound studies of the frustrated magnet CdCr2O4. This compound demonstrates an antiferromagnetic ordering at T N =7.8 K and a me...
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Optical properties of ZnCr2Se4
We studied the optical properties of antiferromagnetic ZnCr2Se4 by infrared spectroscopy up to 28,000 cm-1 and for temperatures from 5 to 295 K. At the magnetic phase transition at 21 K, one of the four phonon mo...
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Relaxor ferroelectricity and colossal magnetocapacitive coupling in ferromagnetic CdCr2S4
Ferromagnets have been known since ancient times. Ferroelectrics were discovered 80 years ago, and both properties are important in many areas of technology and electronics. Materials displaying both ferroelec...
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Structural phase transition at the percolation threshold in epitaxial (La0.7Ca0.3MnO3)1–x:(MgO)x nanocomposite films
'Colossal magnetoresistance' in perovskite manganites such as La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 (LCMO), is caused by the interplay of ferro-paramagnetic, metal–insulator and structural phase transitions. Moreover, different electro...
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Splitting of the Cr 2p ions states in some ternary sulphides and selenides
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy was used to investigate ACr2S4 ( \((A = cd,Zn,Mn,Fe,Fe:Cu)\) and BCr2Se4 ( ...