Spin-State Transition in LaCoO3 : Direct Neutron Spectroscopic Evidence of Excited Magnetic States

Physical Review Letters 97 巻 24 号 247208-1-247208-4 頁 2006-12-15 発行
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Spin-State Transition in LaCoO3 : Direct Neutron Spectroscopic Evidence of Excited Magnetic States
作成者
Podlesnyak A.
Streule S.
Mesot J.
Medarde M.
Pomjakushina E.
Conder K.
Haverkort Maurits W.
Khomskii D.I.
収録物名
Physical Review Letters
97
24
開始ページ 247208-1
終了ページ 247208-4
抄録
A gradual spin-state transition occurs in LaCoO3 around T∼80-120K, whose detailed nature remains controversial. We studied this transition by means of inelastic neutron scattering and found that with increasing temperature an excitation at ∼0.6meV appears, whose intensity increases with temperature, following the bulk magnetization. Within a model including crystal-field interaction and spin-orbit coupling, we interpret this excitation as originating from a transition between thermally excited states located about 120K above the ground state. We further discuss the nature of the magnetic excited state in terms of intermediate-spin (t2g5eg1, S=1) versus high-spin (t2g4eg2, S=2) states. Since the g factor obtained from the field dependence of the inelastic neutron scattering is g∼3, the second interpretation is definitely favored.
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英語
資源タイプ 学術雑誌論文
出版者
American Physical Society
発行日 2006-12-15
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Copyright (c) 2006 The American Physical Society.
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[ISSN] 0031-9007
[DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.247208
[NCID] AA00773679
[DOI] http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.247208