Low temperature structure and magnetostructural coupling in PdCrO2

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We plan to investigate the low-temperature structure and magnetostructural coupling in PdCrO2, which is a quasi-2D material with strongly anisotropic physical properties. It is a triangular lattice antiferromagnet ordering magnetically at 37.5 K. A characteristic temperature is found at 20 K below which an unconventional anomalous Hall effect (UAHE), a change in magnetic structure and an angle-dependent magnetic field driven phase transition are observed. Fermi surface properties indicate that a structural distortion should occur in the low temperature phases, but no neutron diffraction study has directly addressed this below 20 K. We have two main aims: (1) to confirm the low temperature crystal structure of PdCrO2 below 20 K and (2) to investigate the magnetostructural coupling at low temperatures/high fields driving the unconventional physics in this itinerant frustrated spin system.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.67774469
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/67774469
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Creator Dr Christoph Geibel; Dr Pallavi Kushwaha; Dr Clifford Hicks; Professor Hidenori Takagi; Dr Pascal Manuel; Dr Alexandra Gibbs; Professor Andrew Mackenzie; Dr Edward Yelland
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-11-08T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-11-11T09:00:00Z