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@ARTICLE{Zhang:192610,
author = {Zhang, Jian and Wölfel, Alexander and Bykov, Maxim and
Schönleber, Andreas and van Smaalen, Sander and Kremer,
Reinhard K. and Williamson, Hailey L.},
title = {{T}ransformation between spin-{P}eierls and incommensurate
fluctuating phases of {S}c-doped {T}i{OC}l},
journal = {Physical review / B},
volume = {90},
number = {1},
issn = {1098-0121},
address = {College Park, Md.},
publisher = {APS},
reportid = {PUBDB-2014-04192},
pages = {014415},
year = {2014},
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.},
cin = {DOOR},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)HAS-User-20120731},
pnm = {DORIS Beamline D3 (POF2-54G13)},
pid = {G:(DE-H253)POF2-D3-20130405},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)D-D3-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000339443700002},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.90.014415},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/192610},
}