%0 Journal Article
%A Xiao, Y.
%A Su, Y.
%A Li, H.-F.
%A Kumar, C. M. N.
%A Mittal, R.
%A Persson, J.
%A Senyshyn, A.
%A Gross, K.
%A Brückel, T.
%T Neutron diffraction investigation of the crystal and magnetic structures in KCrF3 perovskite
%J Physical review / B
%V 82
%N 9
%@ 1098-0121
%C College Park, Md.
%I APS
%M PreJuSER-11329
%P 094437
%D 2010
%Z Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
%X KCrF3 represents another prototypical orbital-ordered perovskite, where Cr2+ possesses the same electronic configuration of 3d(4) as that of strongly Jahn-Teller distorted Mn3+ in many colossal magnetoresistance manganites. The crystal and magnetic structures of KCrF3 compound are investigated by using polarized and unpolarized neutron powder-diffraction methods. The results show that the KCrF3 compound crystallizes in tetragonal structure at room temperature and undergoes a monoclinic distortion with the decrease in temperature. The distortion of the crystal structure indicates the presence of cooperative Jahn-Teller distortion which is driven by orbital ordering. With decreasing temperature, four magnetic phase transitions are observed at 79.5, 45.8, 9.5, and 3.2 K, which suggests a rich magnetic phase diagram. Below T-N = 79.5 K, the Cr2+ moment orders in an incommensurate antiferromagnetic arrangement, which can be defined by the magnetic propagation vector (1/2 + delta, 1/2 + delta, 0). The incommensurate-commensurate magnetic transition occurs at 45.8 K and the magnetic propagation vector locks into (1/2, 1/2, 0) with the Cr moment of 3.34(5) mu(B), aligned ferromagnetically in (220) plane, but antiferromagnetically along [110] direction. Below 9.5 K, the canted antiferromagnetic ordering and weak ferromagnetism arise from the collinear antiferromagnetic structure while the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and tilted character of the single-ion anisotropy might give rise to the complex magnetic behaviors below 9.5 K.
%K J (WoSType)
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
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%R 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.094437
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/11329