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A temperature and magnetic field dependence Mössbauer study of ɛ-Fe2O3
ɛ-Fe2O3 was synthesized as nanoparticles by a pre-vacuum heat treatment of yttrium iron garnet (Y3Fe5O12) in a silica matrix at 300-C followed by sintering in air at 1,000-C for up to 10 h. It displays complex magnetic properties that are characterized by two transitions, one at 480 K from a paramagnet (P) to canted antiferromagnet (CAF1) and the second at ca. 120 K from the canted antiferromagnet (CAF1) to another canted antiferromagnet (CAF2). CAF2 has a smaller resultant magnetic moment (i.e. smaller canting angle) than CAF1. Analysis of the zero-field Mossbauer spectra at different temperatures shows an associated discontinuity of the hyperfine field around 120 K. In an applied field, the different magnetic sublattices were identified and the directions of their moments were assigned. The moments of the two sublattices are antiparallel and collinear at 160 K but are at right angle to each other at 4.2 K
cis-Cyclohexane-1,4-dicarboxylic acid
In the title compound, C8H12O4, the two carboxyl groups are on the same side of the cyclohexane ring and the ring adopts a chair conformation. Adjacent molecules related by an inversion centre are linked by pairs of O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming a zigzag chain along [1
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CuI–Br Oligomers and Polymers Involving Cu–S(cystamine) Bonds
The syntheses, crystal structures, and thermal properties of five cuprous bromides derived from cystamine, [NH3(CH2)2SS(CH2)2NH3]2+, here denoted by (SS), are reported. Whereas (SS)2Cu4Br8 (1) is a polar tetramer and (SS)2Cu2Br6 (2) consists of [(SS)Cu2Br6]2– dimers, α1-(SS)Cu2Br4 (3), (SS)Cu3Br5 (4), and α2-(SS)Cu2Br4 (5) are polymers; 3 and 5 are one-dimensional and 4 has a corrugated 2D network. All the compounds contain corner-shared tetrahedra with Cu–Br–Cu connections, and in some cases, edge-shared with double bromine bridges. The copper coordination is tetrahedral, either CuBr4 or CuBr3S, except in one case, in which trigonal geometry was encountered. Compounds 1, 2, and 4, which are synthesized at 50 °C, display Cu–S bonds with the cystamine through either one or both sulfur atoms. On the other hand, 3 and 5, which are synthesized at 80 °C, do not have any. There is a high tendency to form hydrogen bonds between the polar ammonium heads of the cystamine with the bromine atoms. The range of phases experienced in this system is related to the bifunctional nature of cystamine, which is characterized by its primary ammonium ends and its disulfide bridge, and to the subtle competition between Br– and S–S ligands towards the CuI ions, which appears to be controllable by temperature. The presence of both chiral M- and P-helicoidal conformers of cystamine in 1–5 results in racemic compounds adopting centrosymmetric structures for 1, 3, 4, and 5 but 2 adopts a noncentrosymmetric structure (P212121) resulting from the coordination of copper ions to one conformer; the other conformer is noncoordinated and acts as the counterion
Broken-Symmetry Ground States of Halogen-Bridged Binuclear Metal Complexes
Based on a symmetry argument, we study ground states of what we call
MMX-chain compounds, which are the new class of halogen-bridged metal
complexes. Commensurate density-wave solutions of a relevant multi-band
Peierls-Hubbard model are systematically revealed within the Hartree-Fock
approximation. We numerically draw ground-state phase diagrams, where various
novel density-wave states appear.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures embedded, to appear in Phys. Lett.
Comparison of the normal state properties of -(BEDT-TTF)Cu(NCS) and its deuterated analogue in high magnetic fields and under high hydrostatic pressures
Details of the Fermi-surface topology of deuterated
-(BEDT-TTF)Cu(NCS) ~have been measured as a function of
pressure, and compared with equivalent measurements of the undeuterated salt.
We find that the superconducting transition temperature is much more
dramatically suppressed by increasing pressure in the deuterated salt. It is
suggested that this is linked to pressure-induced changes in the Fermi-surface
topology, which occur more rapidly in the deuterated salt than in the
undeuterated salt as the pressure is raised. Our data suggest that the negative
isotope effect observed on deuteration is due to small differences in
Fermi-surface topology caused by the isotopic substitution.Comment: 10 pages 3 figure
Magnetoelastic coupling in the cobalt adipate metal-organic framework from quasi-harmonic lattice dynamics
Magnetic interactions in hybrid materials are poorly understood compared to those in purely inorganic materials. The high flexibility of many metal-organic systems introduces a strong temperature dependence of the magnetic exchange interactions owing to changes in the crystal structure. Here, we study the cobalt adipate system, for which anisotropic thermal expansion was recently shown to be a result of magnetoelastic coupling. The combination of density functional theory with quasi-harmonic lattice dynamics is shown to be a powerful tool for describing temperature dependent thermodynamic potentials that determine magnetic interactions. It is demonstrated that the effect of phonons can be sufficient to switch the preference for ferromagnetic versus antiferromagnetic ordering
Weak ferromagnetism in cobalt oxalate crystals
Microcrystals of diaquocobalt(II) oxalate have been synthesized by the
coprecipitation reaction of aqueous solutions of Cobalt (II) bromide and oxalic
acid. Chemical analysis and thermal experiments revealed that there is only one
phase present. X-ray powder diffraction studies show that this compound is
orthorhombic with space group Cccm. Molar susceptibility versus temperature
measurements show the existence of an antiferromagnetic ordering, however, the
hysteresis measured in magnetization measurements as a function of magnetic
field reveals a weak ferromagnetic behavior.Comment: 7 pages, 11 figure
An Experimental and Semi-Empirical Method to Determine the Pauli-Limiting Field in Quasi 2D Superconductors as applied to -(BEDT-TTF)Cu(NCS): Strong Evidence of a FFLO State
We present upper critical field data for -(BEDT-TTF)Cu(NCS)
with the magnetic field close to parallel and parallel to the conducting
layers. We show that we can eliminate the effect of vortex dynamics in these
layered materials if the layers are oriented within 0.3 degrees of parallel to
the applied magnetic field. Eliminating vortex effects leaves one remaining
feature in the data that corresponds to the Pauli paramagnetic limit ().
We propose a semi-empirical method to calculate the in quasi 2D
superconductors. This method takes into account the energy gap of each of the
quasi 2D superconductors, which is calculated from specific heat data, and the
influence of many body effects. The calculated Pauli paramagnetic limits are
then compared to critical field data for the title compound and other organic
conductors. Many of the examined quasi 2D superconductors, including the above
organic superconductors and CeCoIn, exhibit upper critical fields that
exceed their calculated suggesting unconventional superconductivity. We
show that the high field low temperature state in
-(BEDT-TTF)Cu(NCS) is consistent with the Fulde Ferrell Larkin
Ovchinnikov state.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures, 10 years of dat
Pressure dependence of the Shubnikov-de Haas oscillation pectrum of beta''-(BEDT-TTF)4(NH4)[Cr(C2O4)3].DMF
The Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillation spectra of the
beta''-(BEDT-TTF)4(NH4)[Cr(C2O4)\_3].DMF organic metal have been studied in
pulsed magnetic fields of up to either 36 T at ambient pressure or 50 T under
hydrostatic pressures of up to 1 GPa. The ambient pressure SdH oscillation
spectra can be accounted for by up to six fundamental frequencies which points
to a rather complex Fermi surface (FS). A noticeable pressure-induced
modification of the FS topology is evidenced since the number of frequencies
observed in the spectra progressively decreases as the pressure increases.
Above 0.8 GPa, only three compensated orbits are observed, as it is the case
for several other isostructural salts of the same family at ambient pressure.
Contrary to other organic metals, of which the FS can be regarded as a network
of orbits, no frequency combinations are observed for the studied salt, likely
due to high magnetic breakdown gap values or (and) high disorder level
evidenced by Dingle temperatures as large as about 7 K.Comment: To be published in European Physical Journal
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