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Keith V. Lawler

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Colossal Density-Driven Resistance Response in the Negative Charge Transfer Insulator MnS2

2021

A reversible density driven insulator to metal to insulator transition in high-spin MnS_{2} is experimentally observed, leading with a colossal electrical resistance drop of 10^{8}  Ω by 12 GPa. Density functional theory simulations reveal the metallization to be unexpectedly driven by previously unoccupied S_{2}^{2-} σ_{3p}^{*} antibonding states crossing the Fermi level. This is a unique variant of the charge transfer insulator to metal transition for negative charge transfer insulators having anions with an unsaturated valence. By 36 GPa the emergence of the low-spin insulating arsenopyrite (P2_{1}/c) is confirmed, and the bulk metallicity is broken with the system returning to an insula…

Condensed Matter::Quantum GasesMaterials scienceValence (chemistry)Condensed matter physicsFermi levelGeneral Physics and AstronomyInsulator (electricity)Charge (physics)Antibonding molecular orbitalMetalCondensed Matter::Materials Sciencesymbols.namesakeElectrical resistance and conductancevisual_artsymbolsvisual_art.visual_art_mediumCondensed Matter::Strongly Correlated ElectronsDensity functional theoryPhysical Review Letters
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Coexistence of metamagnetism and slow relaxation of magnetization in ammonium hexafluoridorhenate.

2020

The (NH4)2[ReF6] (1) salt was studied by X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, theoretical calculations, and magnetic measurements. 1 crystallizes in the trigonal space group Pm1 (Re–F = 1.958(5) A). In the Raman spectrum of 1, splitting of the observed peaks was observed and correlated to the valence frequencies of vibration of the [ReF6]2− anion. The study of the magnetic properties of 1, through DC and AC magnetic susceptibility measurements, reveals the coexistence of metamagnetism and slow relaxation of magnetization at low temperature, which is unusual in the molecular systems based on the paramagnetic 5d metal ions reported so far.

Valence (chemistry)Materials scienceCondensed matter physicsGeneral Chemical EngineeringRelaxation (NMR)General ChemistryMagnetic susceptibilityIonMagnetizationParamagnetismsymbols.namesakesymbolsCondensed Matter::Strongly Correlated ElectronsRaman spectroscopyMetamagnetismRSC advances
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Decoupling lattice and magnetic instabilities in frustrated CuMnO$_2$

2021

The $A$MnO$_{2}$ delafossites ($A$=Na, Cu), are model frustrated antiferromagnets, with triangular layers of Mn$^{3+}$~spins. At low temperatures ($T_{N}$=65 K), a $C2/m \rightarrow P\overline{1}$ transition is found in CuMnO$_2$, which breaks frustration and establishes magnetic order. In contrast to this clean transition, $A$=Na only shows short-range distortions at $T_N$. Here we report a systematic crystallographic, spectroscopic, and theoretical investigation of CuMnO$_2$. We show that, even in stoichiometric samples, non-zero anisotropic Cu displacements co-exist with magnetic order. Using X-ray/neutron diffraction and Raman scattering, we show that high pressures acts to decouple the…

Phase transitionCondensed matter physicsSpinsStrongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)010405 organic chemistryChemistryMagnetismmedia_common.quotation_subjectNeutron diffractionFrustrationFOS: Physical sciences010402 general chemistry01 natural sciences0104 chemical sciencesInorganic ChemistryCondensed Matter - Strongly Correlated ElectronsNegative thermal expansionDensity functional theoryCondensed Matter::Strongly Correlated ElectronsPhysical and Theoretical ChemistryAnisotropymedia_common
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CSD 1962857: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

2021

Related Article: James Louis-Jean, Samundeeswari M. Balasekaran, Keith V. Lawler, Adrián Sanchis-Perucho, José Martínez-Lillo, Dean Smith, Paul M. Forster, Ashkan Salamat, Frederic Poineau|2021|RSC Advances|11|6353|doi:10.1039/D0RA10325J

Space GroupCrystallographyCrystal SystemCrystal StructureCell ParametersExperimental 3D Coordinates
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