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Temperature-induced martensite in magnetic shape memory Fe2MnGa observed by photoemission electron microscopy
2012
The magnetic domain structure in single crystals of a Heusler shape memory compound near the composition Fe2MnGa was observed during phase transition by photoelectron emission microscopy at Beamline 11.0.1.1 of the Advanced Light Source. The behavior is comparable with recent observations of an adaptive martensite phase in prototype Ni2MnGa, although the pinning in the recent work is an epitaxial interface and in this work the effective pinning plane is a boundary between martensitic variants that transform in a self-accommodating way from the single crystal austenite phase present at high temperatures. Temperature dependent observations of the twinning structure give information as to the …
First-Principles Simulation of Substitutional Defects in Perovskites
2000
The results of supercell calculations of electronic structure and related properties of substitutional impurities in perovskite oxides KNbO3 and KTaO3 are discussed. For Fe impurities in KNbO3, the results obtained in the local density approximation (LDA) and in the LDA+U approach (that allows an ad hoc treatment of nonlocality in exchange-correlation) are compared, and different impurity charge configurations are discussed. The study of off-centre Li defects in incipient ferroelectric KTaO3 have been done by the appropriately parametrized Intermediate Neglect of Differential Overlap (INDO) method. The interaction energies of two off-centre impurities in different relative configurations ar…
Iron-based Heusler compounds Fe2YZ: Comparison with theoretical predictions of the crystal structure and magnetic properties
2013
The present work reports on the new soft ferromagnetic Heusler phases Fe${}_{2}$NiGe, Fe${}_{2}$CuGa, and Fe${}_{2}$CuAl, which in previous theoretical studies have been predicted to exist in a tetragonal Heusler structure. Together with the known phases Fe${}_{2}$CoGe and Fe${}_{2}$NiGa these materials have been synthesized and characterized by powder x-ray diffraction, ${}^{57}$Fe M\"ossbauer spectroscopy, superconducting quantum interference device, and energy-dispersive x-ray measurements. In particular M\"ossbauer spectroscopy was used to monitor the degree of local atomic order/disorder and to estimate magnetic moments at the Fe sites from the hyperfine fields. It is shown that in con…
Theoretical Prediction and Experimental Confirmation of Charge Transfer Vibronic Excitons and Their Phase in ABO3 Perovskite Crystals
2002
AbstractThe current theoretical and experimental knowledge of new polaronic-type excitons in ferroelectric oxides - charge transfer vibronic excitons (CTVE) is discussed. It is shown that quantum chemical Hartree-Fock-type calculations using a semiempirical Intermediate Neglect of Differential Overlap (INDO) method (modified for ionic/partly ionic solids) as well as photoluminescence studies in ferroelectric oxygen-octahedral perovskites confirm the CTVE existence. Our INDO calculations for KTaO3 and KNbO3 have demonstrated that the triplet exciton is a triad centre containing one active O atom and two Ta atoms sitting on the opposite sites from this O atom. The total energy of a system is …
Exact and Variational Treatment of Ferroelectric Thin Films with Different Materials of Electrodes
2005
We trace the influence of metallic electrodes on the properties of thin ferroelectric films. This has been done in the framework of the phenomenological Landau theory. We present both exact analytical solution of the problem in terms of Weierstrass elliptic functions and the variational solution. We calculate polarization, dielectric susceptibility, pyroelectric coefficient and depolarization field. We have shown that the ferroelectric phase of the film can be destroyed by the choice of material of electrodes with screening length exceeding some critical value. This demonstrates that we can control the physical properties of thin ferroelectric films by the proper choice of the electrode mat…
Challenging the Prediction of Anionogenic Ferromagnetism for Rb4O6
2007
It has been suggested that Rb4O6 should be a half-metallic ferromagnet with the magnetic moment carried by the hyperoxide anions and a Curie temperature above room temperature. In the present work,...
Element-specific magnetic moments from core-absorption magnetic circular dichroism of the doped Heusler alloyCo2Cr0.6Fe0.4Al
2003
The magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) of core-level absorption (x-ray absorption spectroscopy, XAS) spectra in the soft x-ray region has been measured for the ferromagnetic Heusler alloy ${\mathrm{Co}}_{2}{\mathrm{Cr}}_{0.6}{\mathrm{Fe}}_{0.4}\mathrm{Al}$ at the Co, Fe, and Cr ${L}_{II,III}$ edges. The comparison of XAS spectra before and after in situ cleaning of polished surfaces revealed a pronounced selective oxidation of Cr in air. For clean surfaces we observed a MCD for all three elements with Fe showing the largest moment per atom. The MCD can be explained by the density of states of the $3d$ unoccupied states, predicted by linear muffin-tin orbital atomic sphere approximation. For …
New Materials with High Spin Polarization Investigated by X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism
2013
We investigate element-specific spin and orbital magnetic moments of polycrystalline bulk Heusler alloys that are predicted to be half-metallic with composition Co2YZ (Y = Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe and Z = Al, Ga, Si, Ge, Sn, Sb) using magnetic circular dichroism in X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS/XMCD). In addition to stoichiometric compounds we also investigate composition series with partly replaced elements on the Y-site (Co2Fe x Cr1−x Si, Co2Mn x Ti1−x Si and Co2Mn x Ti1−x Ge) and on the Z-site (Co2MnGa1−x Ge x ) promising a tailoring of the Fermi level with respect to the minority band gap. We compare experimental results with theoretical predictions elucidating the influence of local disorde…
Dielectric relaxation and conductivity in ferroelectric perovskites
1996
Abstract Ferroelectric ABO3 perovskites are usually well known for their high dielectric susceptibility. Under selected impurity substitutions their conductivity may be strongly increased. The interaction between electronic conductivity and lattice polarizability may take place over different length scales. At high temperatures (T > 300 K), this interaction length is macroscopic leading to space charges. At low temperatures (T < 50 K), the polaronic interaction is restricted to a few unit cells. In the special case of SrTiO3, these polaronic excitons are sensitive to the quantum fluctuations which lead to the new concept of quantum polarons.
Time-resolved Observation and Control of Superexchange Interactions with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
2007
Quantum mechanical superexchange interactions form the basis of quantum magnetism in strongly correlated electronic media. We report on the direct measurement of superexchange interactions with ultracold atoms in optical lattices. After preparing a spin-mixture of ultracold atoms in an antiferromagnetically ordered state, we measure a coherent superexchange-mediated spin dynamics with coupling energies from 5 Hz up to 1 kHz. By dynamically modifying the potential bias between neighboring lattice sites, the magnitude and sign of the superexchange interaction can be controlled, thus allowing the system to be switched between antiferromagnetic or ferromagnetic spin interactions. We compare our…