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Consequences of pressure-instigated spin crossover in RFeO3 perovskites; a volume collapse with no symmetry modification

Rozenberg, G. Kh ; Pasternak, M. P. ; Xu, W. M. ; Dubrovinsky, L. S. ; Carlson, S. LU and Taylor, R. D. (2005) In Europhysics Letters 71(2). p.228-234
Abstract

High-pressure X-ray diffraction, Mössbauer, and Raman studies in the antiferromagnetic insulators RFeO3 orthorhombic perovskites (R = Pr, Eu, Lu) disclose an unusual phenomena of a reversible first-order isostructural phase transition around 50 GPa concurring with an abrupt ∼ 5% volume decrease. It is shown experimentally that this transformation concurs with, and is driven by, a high-to-low-spin transition taking place in Fe3+; a manifestation of a new kind of isostructural phase transition. These studies suggest that the RFeO3 perovskite is a rather sturdy oxide-structure, maintaining its original structural symmetry beyond 125 GPa.

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10.1209/epl/i2005-10071-9
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  title        = {{Consequences of pressure-instigated spin crossover in RFeO<sub>3</sub> perovskites; a volume collapse with no symmetry modification}},
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