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@INPROCEEDINGS{Corkett:1047033,
author = {Corkett, A. and Grzechnik, A. and Friese, K.},
title = {{T}ransition metal carbodiimides –{A} new playground for
solid-statephysics?},
reportid = {FZJ-2025-04084},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Transition metal oxides, particularly those with partially
filled 3d shells, have been the playgroundfor solid-state
physics for many decades. These correlated oxides exhibit a
competition betweencoulombic repulsion, which tends to
localize electrons, and hybridization, which promotes
delocalization,that leads to numerous many-body effects such
as metal-insulator transitions, colossalmagnetoresistance
and superconductivity, to name but a few. Traditionally the
modification of suchphases, to imbue different physical
properties, has relied on the doping of one cation for
another toadjust both the electron count and degree of
correlation. However, an alternative strategy may alsobe
employed via anion substitution. Enter the divalent
carbodiimide anion, <sup>−</sup>N=C=N<sup>−</sup>,which
is well considered a pseudo-oxide, but with enhanced
covalent character [1]. Indeed, numerousquasi-binary
transition metal carbodiimides,
M<sub>x</sub>(NCN)<sub>y</sub>, have nowbeen prepared,
including CuNCN which exhibits spin-liquid behavior and a
resonating-valencebond ground-state [2]. Here, however, we
will take a closer look at MnHf(NCN)<sub>3</sub>
andFeHf(NCN)<sub>3</sub>, which are the first examples of
transition metal carbodiimides with aperovskite-like
AB(NCN)<sub>3</sub> composition [3]. These quasi-ternary
phases adopt a chiralcrystal structure, with
P6<sub>3</sub>22 symmetry, and magnetometry measurements on
MnHf(NCN)<sub>3</sub>evidence strong AFM coupling of
Mn<sup>2+</sup> centers, but no evidence for long-range
order.This suggests a degree of magnetic frustration in
MnHf(NCN)<sub>3</sub> and highlights that thetypes of
quantum behavior observed in correlated oxides may also be
accessible to their carbodiimideanalogs.},
month = {Oct},
date = {2025-10-07},
organization = {JCNS Workshop 2025, Trends and
Perspectives in Neutron Scattering.
Quantum Materials: Theory and
Experiments, Evangelische Akademie
Tutzing (Germany), 7 Oct 2025 - 9 Oct
2025},
subtyp = {Invited},
cin = {JCNS-2 / JARA-FIT / JCNS-4},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-2-20110106 / $I:(DE-82)080009_20140620$ /
I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-4-20201012},
pnm = {632 - Materials – Quantum, Complex and Functional
Materials (POF4-632) / 6G4 - Jülich Centre for Neutron
Research (JCNS) (FZJ) (POF4-6G4)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-632 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-6G4},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)6},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1047033},
}