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Synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction measurements have been performed on unpoled ceramic samples of (1-x)PbMg(1/3)Nb(2/3)O3-xPbTiO3 (PMN-xPT) with 30%<= x<= 39% as a function of temperature around the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB),…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Noheda , D. E. Cox , G. Shirane , Z. -G. Ye , J. Gao

Noncollinear metallic antiferromagnets, with their rapid spin dynamics, efficient spin transport, and distinctive spin textures, play a pivotal role in advancing the field of spintronics. In this study, we report a comprehensive…

Electronic, magnetic, and transport properties of the antiferromagnetic (AFM) CuMnAs alloy with tetragonal structure, promising for the AFM spintronics, are studied from first principles using the Vienna ab-initio simulation package. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-11 F. Máca , J. Kudrnovský , V. Drchal , K. Carva , P. Baláž , I. Turek

We present a combined experimental and computational method which enables the precise determination of the atomic positions in a thin film using CuK{\alpha} radiation, only. The capabilities of this technique surpass simple structure…

LiCu_2O_2 single crystals were studied in the temperature range 300-1100 K by means of heating-cooling curves of differential thermal analysis (DTA), thermogravimetry (TG), X-ray powder diffraction and electrical measurements. A reversible…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-19 S. A. Ivanov , A. A. Bush , K. E. Kamentsev , E. A. Tishchenko , M. Ottosson , R. Mathieu , P. Nordblad

We present neutron diffraction measurements in high magnetic fields (0 to 14.5 T) and at low temperatures (2.5, 2.3, 0.77 and 0.068 K) on single crystals of the tetragonal heavy fermion antiferromagnet Ce2RhIn8. For B//[110] the field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 E. G. Moshopoulou , K. Prokes , E. Garcia-Matres , P. G. Pagliuso , J. L. Sarrao , J. D. Thompson

The temperature dependences of resistance, R(T), of two single-crystals La_{2}CuO_{4+\delta} samples have been studied with the aim to detect a possible change in the R(T) behavior induced by paramagnetic-antiferromagnetic (PM-AFM)…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-29 B. I. Belevtsev , N. V. Dalakova , A. S. Panfilov , E. Yu. Beliayev

The low-temperature crystal structure of Fe1.13Te, which exhibits an anomalous two-step magnetic transition, was clarified by the systematic x-ray diffraction measurements. It was found that two-step structural phase transition,…

La$_{0.4}$Na$_{0.6}$Fe$_2$As$_2$ single crystals have been grown out of an NaAs flux in an alumina crucible and characterized by measuring magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistivity, specific heat, as well as single crystal x-ray and…

In contrast to the simultaneous structural and magnetic first order phase transition $T_{0}$ previously reported, our detailed investigation on an underdoped Ba$_{0.84}$K$_{0.16}$Fe$_{2}$As$_{2}$ single crystal unambiguously revealed that…

We report on antiferromagnetic resonance experiments in bulk tetragonal NaMnAs -- a room-temperature antiferromagnetic semiconductor. Our results corroborate previous ab initio studies, which propose that NaMnAs is an easy-axis…

Temperature-dependent resistivity and magnetoresistance are measured in bulk tetragonal phase of antiferromagnetic CuMnAs and the latter is found to be anisotropic both due to structure and magnetic order. We compare these findings to model…

A structural phase transition from cubic $Fd\bar{3}m$ to tetragonal $I$4$_1$/$amd$ symmetry with $c/a >$ 1 is observed at $T_{\rm{S}}$ = 16 K in spinel GeCo$_2$O$_4$ below the N\'eel temperature $T_N$ = 21 K. Structural and magnetic…

We present a thorough $^{77}$Se NMR study of a single crystal of the magnetoelectric compound Cu$_2$OSeO$_3$. The temperature dependence of the local electronic moments extracted from the NMR data is fully consistent with a magnetic phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-09-17 M. Belesi , I. Rousochatzakis , H. C. Wu , H. Berger , I. V. Shvets , F. Mila , J. P. Ansermet

Antiferromagnets offer spintronic device characteristics unparalleled in ferromagnets owing to their lack of stray fields, THz spin dynamics, and rich materials landscape. Microscopic imaging of aniferromagnetic domains is one of the key…

The orthorhombic antiferromagnetic compound CuMnAs was recently predicted to be an antiferromagnetic Dirac semimetal if both the Ry gliding and S2z rotational symmetries are preserved in its magnetic ordered state. In our previous work on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-17 Eve Emmanouilidou , Jinyu Liu , David Graf , Huibo Cao , Ni Ni

Neutron diffraction measurements of a high quality single crystal of CaFe2As2 are reported. A sharp transition was observed between the high temperature tetragonal and low temperature orthorhombic structures at TS = 172.5K (on cooling) and…

The structural properties of the CaFe2As2 have been investigated by x-ray and neutron powder diffraction techniques as a function of temperature. Unambiguous experimental evidence is shown for coexistence of tetragonal and orthorhombic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-27 S. K. Mishra , R. Mittal , P. S. R. Krishna , P. U. Sastry , S. L. Chaplot , P. D. Babu , S. Matsuishi , H. Hosono

Electrical detection of the 180 deg spin reversal, which is the basis of the operation of ferromagnetic memories, is among the outstanding challenges in the research of antiferromagnetic spintronics. Analogous effects to the ferromagnetic…

We present here a neutron diffraction study, both in zero field and as a function of magnetic field, of the magnetic structure of the tetragonal intermetallic \eun\ on a single crystalline sample. This material is known to undergo a cascade…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-29 X. Fabreges , A. Gukasov , P. Bonville , A. Maurya , A. Thamizhavel , S. K. Dhar