X-ray and neutron diffraction studies of coupled structural phase transitions in DyBaCoO
arXiv:cond-mat/0612139 · doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2006.12.067
Abstract
A structural transition at K from the to phase is found to coincide with an anomaly of resistivity. Another structural phase transition doubling the lattice parameter , which has been postulated earlier to accompany a low-temperature magnetic transition in TbBaCoO, is observed in a single crystal DbBaCoO by means of the X-ray and neutron diffraction. The low temperature phase does not belong to the space group that has been chosen earlier as the highest subgroup of the . The transition is of the first order with the temperature hysteresis, between and K, which probably explains anomalous magnetic properties in this temperature range.
6 pages, 4 figures