Low-temperature properties of magnetically frustrated rare-earth zirconates A 2Zr2O7

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ad483f" target="_blank" >10.1088/1361-648X/ad483f</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Low-temperature properties of magnetically frustrated rare-earth zirconates A 2Zr2O7

Original language description

Rare-earth A(2)Zr(2)O(7) zirconates have attracted considerable attention of the scientific community for their complex magnetic, electronic and material properties applicable in modern technologies. The light rare-earth members of the series, crystallising in the pyrochlore variant of cubic crystal structure, have been studied in detail. The heavier A(2)Zr(2)O(7) compounds have been investigated mainly from the material properties viewpoint, focussing on their thermal properties and stability at high temperature and pressure. Low-temperature studies were mostly missing until recently. We present the low-temperature magnetic and thermodynamic properties of A(2)Zr(2)O(7) with A = Y, La, Nd, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Tm, Yb, and Lu, well covering the whole series, newly synthesised by high-temperature sintering and melting methods. X-ray diffraction reveals and confirms the ordered pyrochlore structure in the light members, the disordered cubic structure of the defect-fluorite type in A(2)Zr(2)O(7) with A = Y, Gd-Yb, and finally the lower symmetry rhombohedral structure in the end-member Lu2Zr2O7. The specific heat of the investigated compounds is dominated by a low-temperature anomaly associated with magnetic ordering: long-range in light rare-earth zirconates; and short-range in heavier members. The effective magnetic moment in the studied compounds, determined by fitting the magnetisation data to the Curie-Weiss formula, is in good agreement with the expected value of the A(3+) free ion. The magnetic properties have been revealed to be strongly influenced by the geometric frustration of the magnetic moments of both the pyrochlore structure, as well as the face centred cubic lattice created by the cations of the defect-fluorite structure, but connected also to intrinsic atomic disorder. The experimental results are discussed in the framework of previous studies on A(2)Zr(2)O(7) zirconates, as well as other A(2)B(2)O(7) compounds.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10302 - Condensed matter physics (including formerly solid state physics, supercond.)

Project

<a href="/en/project/LM2023065" target="_blank" >LM2023065: Material growth and measurement laboratory</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter

ISSN

0953-8984

e-ISSN

1361-648X

Volume of the periodical

36

Issue of the periodical within the volume

32

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

325805

UT code for WoS article

001225571800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85193563161