Room-temperature structural phase transition in the quasi-2D spin- 12 Heisenberg antiferromagnet Cu(pz)2(ClO4)2

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العنوان: Room-temperature structural phase transition in the quasi-2D spin- 12 Heisenberg antiferromagnet Cu(pz)2(ClO4)2
المؤلفون: Marisa Medarde, H. R. Ott, Joël Mesot, Tian Shang, C. P. Landee, Denis Sheptyakov, Toni Shiroka, Nicolò Barbero
المصدر: Physical Review Materials. 3
بيانات النشر: American Physical Society (APS), 2019.
سنة النشر: 2019
مصطلحات موضوعية: Phase transition, Materials science, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Pyrazine, Transition temperature, Neutron diffraction, 02 engineering and technology, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 01 natural sciences, Magnetization, Paramagnetism, chemistry.chemical_compound, Crystallography, chemistry, 0103 physical sciences, Antiferromagnetism, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, 0210 nano-technology, Spin (physics)
الوصف: $\mathrm{Cu}{(\mathrm{pz})}_{2}{({\mathrm{ClO}}_{4})}_{2}$ (with pz denoting pyrazine, ${\mathrm{C}}_{4}{\mathrm{H}}_{4}{\mathrm{N}}_{2})$ is a two-dimensional spin-1/2 square-lattice antiferromagnet with ${T}_{\mathrm{N}}=4.24$ K. Due to a persisting focus on the low-temperature magnetic properties, its room-temperature structural and physical properties caught no attention up to now. Here we report a study of the structural features of $\mathrm{Cu}{(\mathrm{pz})}_{2}{({\mathrm{ClO}}_{4})}_{2}$ in the paramagnetic phase, up to 330 K. By employing magnetization, specific heat, $^{35}\mathrm{Cl}$ nuclear magnetic resonance, and neutron diffraction measurements, we provide evidence of a second-order phase transition at ${T}^{★}=294$ K, not reported before. The absence of a magnetic ordering across ${T}^{★}$ in the magnetization data, yet the presence of a sizable anomaly in the specific heat, suggests a structural order-to-disorder-type transition. NMR and neutron-diffraction data corroborate our conjecture by revealing subtle angular distortions of the pyrazine rings and of ${\mathrm{ClO}}_{4}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ counteranion tetrahedra, shown to adopt a configuration of higher symmetry above the transition temperature.
تدمد: 2475-9953
DOI: 10.1103/physrevmaterials.3.053602
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::ae2c40d0f228404e85e87bd8ef69a1da
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevmaterials.3.053602
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الوصف
تدمد:24759953
DOI:10.1103/physrevmaterials.3.053602