Spin-driven Jahn-Teller distortion in a pyrochlore system

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 4960-4963

  Yamashita, Yasufumi ^a   Ueda, Kazuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; ENTROPY; GROUND STATE; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

MAGNETOELASTIC INTERACTION; PYROCHLORE SYSTEM; QUANTUM SPIN; SPINEL COMPOUNDS; TETRAHEDRAL NETWORK; VALENCE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0034430375     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4960     Document Type: Article

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