guest ::
| Home > Publications database > Transformation between spin-Peierls and incommensurate fluctuating phases of Sc-doped TiOCl |
| Home > Publications database > Transformation between spin-Peierls and incommensurate fluctuating phases of Sc-doped TiOCl |
| Journal Article | PUBDB-2014-04192 |
; ; ; ; ; ;
2014
APS
College Park, Md.
This record in other databases: 
Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.90.014415
Abstract: Single crystals of ScxTi1−xOCl(x=0.005) have been grown by the vapor phase transport technique. Specific heat measurements prove the absence of phase transitions for 4–200 K. Instead, an excess entropy is observed over a range of temperatures that encompasses the incommensurate phase transition at 90 K and the spin-Peierls transition at 67 K of pure TiOCl. Temperature-dependent x-ray diffraction on ScxTi1−xOCl gives broadened diffraction maxima at incommensurate positions between Tc1=61.5(3) and ∼90 K, and at commensurate positions below 61.5 K. These results are interpreted as due to the presence of an incommensurate phase without long-range order at intermediate temperatures, and of a highly disturbed commensurate phase without long-range order at low temperatures. The commensurate phase is attributed to a fluctuating spin-Peierls state on an orthorhombic lattice. The monoclinic symmetry and local structure of the fluctuations are equal to the symmetry and structure of the ordered spin-Peierls state of TiOCl. A novel feature of ScxTi1−xOCl(x=0.005) is a transformation from one fluctuating phase (the incommensurate phase at intermediate temperatures) to another fluctuating phase (the spin-Peierls-like phase). This transformation is not a phase transition occurring at a critical temperature, but it proceeds gradually over a temperature range of ∼10 K wide. The destruction of long-range order requires much lower levels of doping in TiOCl than in other low-dimensional electronic crystals, like the canonical spin-Peierls compound CuGeO3. An explanation for the higher sensitivity to doping has not been found, but it is noticed that it may be the result of an increased two-dimensional character of the doped magnetic system. The observed fluctuating states with long correlation lengths are reminiscent of Kosterlitz–Thouless-type phases in two-dimensional systems.
; 
; 
; Current Contents - Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences ; IF < 5 ; JCR ; Nationallizenz
; SCOPUS ; Science Citation Index ; Science Citation Index Expanded ; Thomson Reuters Master Journal List ; Web of Science Core Collection
|
The record appears in these collections: |
PDF
