NEUTRON-DIFFRACTION STUDY OF MAGNETIC PHASES IN POLYCRYSTALLINE MN2SIS4

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作者
LAMARCHE, AM
LAMARCHE, G
CHURCH, C
WOOLLEY, JC
SWAINSON, IP
HOLDEN, TM
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[1] UNIV OTTAWA,OTTAWA CARLETON INST PHYS,DEPT PHYS,OTTAWA K1N 6N5,ON,CANADA
[2] AECL RES,CHALK RIVER LABS,CHALK RIVER K0J 1J0,ON,CANADA
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加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
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10.1016/0304-8853(94)90716-1
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
A narrow region of spontaneous magnetization was found to occur in the synthetic olivine Mn2SiS4 between 83 and 86 K. Neutron diffraction analysis shows that for the manganese ions there is antiferromagnetic spin alignment along the crystallographic a-axis, with opposing ferromagnetic c-components on two sites of different symmetries, inversion and mirror. Below 83 K the analysis shows canted antiferromagnetism progressing to collinear alignment on the b-axis at 4.2 K.
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页数:8
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