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Frustration under pressure: Exotic magnetism in new pyrochlore oxides

C. Wiebe,A. Hallas

Published 2015 in APL Materials

ABSTRACT

Pyrochlore structures, of chemical formula A2B2O7 (A and B are typically trivalent and tetravalent ions, respectively), have been the focus of much activity in the condensed matter community due to the ease of substitution of rare earth and transition metal ions upon the two interpenetrating corner-shared tetrahedral lattices. Over the last few decades, superconductivity, spin liquid states, spin ice states, glassy states in the absence of chemical disorder, and metal-insulator transitions have all been discovered in these materials. Geometric frustration plays a role in the relevant physics of all of these phenomena. In the search for new pyrochlore materials, it is the RA/RB cation radius ratio which determines the stability of the lattice over the defect fluorite structure in the lower limit. Under ambient pressure, the pyrochlores are stable for 1.36 ≤ RA/RB ≤ 1.71. However, using high pressure synthesis techniques (1-10 GPa of pressure), metastable pyrochlores exist up to RA/RB = 2.30. Many of these ...

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  • Publication year

    2015

  • Venue

    APL Materials

  • Publication date

    2015-04-15

  • Fields of study

    Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.1063/1.4916020
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    Open on Semantic Scholar

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    Semantic Scholar

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