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The layered manganese oxides LnBaMn1.96Fe0.04Oy (Ln=Y, Gd, Sm, Nd, Pr, La) have been synthesized for y=5, 5.5 and 6. In the oxygen-saturated state (y=6) they exhibit the charge and orbital order at ambient temperature for Ln=Y, Gd, Sm, but…
A-site ordered manganites LnBaMn1.96Fe0.04O5 and LnBaMn1.96Fe0.04O6 are investigated by x-ray full-profile diffraction and Moessbauer spectroscopy. Powder samples were oriented with preferred orientation of platy crystallites in the plane…
In the Fe-Mo based B-site ordered double-perovskite, A2FeMoO6.0, with iron in the mixed-valence II/III state, the valence value of Fe is not precisely fixed at 2.5 but may be fine-tuned by means of applying chemical pressure at the A-cation…
We calculate the angular dependence of the x-ray linear and circular dichroism at the $L_{2,3}$ edges of $\alpha$-Fe(II) Phthalocyanine (FePc) thin films using a ligand field model with full configuration interaction. We find the best…
57Fe Mossbauer spectroscopy was used to perform a microscopic study on the extremely pressure and strain sensitive compound, CaFe2As2, with different degrees of strain introduced by grinding and annealing. At the base temperature, in the…
Two intermetallic FeAl compounds with Al content of 70.68 and 72.17 at.pct were studied using M\"ossbauer spectroscopy (5 to 296 K) and X-ray diffraction (15 to 300 K). The compounds were found to crystallize in the orthorhombic Cmcm space…
We investigate spin properties of a Fe2+ dopant, known for having single nondegenerate ground state in bulk host semiconductor. Due to zero magnetic moment such a ground state is of little use for spintronics and solotronics. We show that…
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The giant exciton binding energy and the richness of degrees of freedom make monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide an unprecedented playground for exploring exciton physics in 2D systems. Thanks to the well energetically separated…
The complex structure and magnetism of Pr$_{2-x}$Bi$_x$Ru$_2$O$_7$ was investigated by neutron scattering and EXAFS. Pr has an approximate doublet ground-state and the first excited state is a singlet. This overall crystal field level…
e have investigated the magnetic properties of YbRu$_{2}$Ge$_{2}$ by means of magnetic susceptibility $\chi$(T), specific heat C(T) and electrical resistivity $\rho$(T) measurements performed on flux grown single crystals. The Curie-Weiss…
The compound BaFe2Se3 (Pnma) has been synthesized in the form of single crystals with the average composition Ba0.992Fe1.998Se3. The Moessbauer spectroscopy used for investigation of the valence states of Fe in this compound at temperature…
We report Raman-scattering results of YbRu$_2$Ge$_2$ single crystals to explore the phononic and crystal-field (CF) excitations. This heavy-fermion metal is suggested to enter a ferroquadrupolar (FQ) phase below T$_0$=10 K. The tetragonal…
We report on the low-frequency optical excitations in the multiferroic ground state of polycrystalline FeCr2S4 in the frequency range 0.3-3~THz and their changes upon applying external magnetic fields up to 7~T. In the ground state below…
Polycrystalline samples of ternary rare earth germanides R$_{2}$Co$_{3}$Ge$_{5}$(R = La, Ce and Pr) have been prepared and investigated by means of magnetic susceptibility, isothermal magnetization, electrical resistivity and specific heat…
Temperature dependent measurements of 57Fe Mossbauer spectra on CaFe2As2 single crystals in the tetragonal and collapsed tetragonal phases are reported. Clear features in the temperature dependencies of the isomer shift, relative spectra…
The combination of spin transitions and magnetic ordering provides an interesting structure of phase transitions in Prussian blue analogues (PBAs). To understand the structure of stable and metastable states of Co-Fe PBA, it is necessary to…
We investigate the ground state properties of an equal mixture of two species of bosons in its Mott-insulator phase at a filling factor two per site. We identify one type of spin triplet-singlet transition through the competition of ground…
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We present an ESR study at excitation frequencies of 9.4 GHz and 222.4 GHz of powders and single crystals of a Prussian Blue analogue (PBA), RbMn[Fe(CN)6]*H2O in which Fe and Mn undergoes a charge transfer transition between 175 and 300 K.…