Magnetic Structure of Candidate Ferroelectric Metal

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Perovskite oxides exhibit a large array of interesting electronic properties. Owing to their difficult synthesis (requiring extremely high pressures) the MOsO3 Osmates offer a new frontier of exploration for this class of materials. LiOsO3 is a newly synthesised material, and preliminary measurements in the process of submission to Science indicate that it is a candidate for what P.W. Anderson proposed to call a ¿ferroelectric metal¿ i.e. a metallic solid which lacks a centre of inversion symmetry. The change in the susceptibility at Tc indicates that there is possibly a magnetic ordering of the osmium sublattice, coupled to the structural distortion. It would be of fundamental interest therefore to probe the possibility of either magnetic order or short-range correlations, and neutron diffraction using the WISH diffractometer at ISIS is an ideal strategy to probe such a possibility.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089927
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089927
Provenance
Creator Professor Andrew Boothroyd; Dr Andrew Princep; Dr Yanfeng Guo; Dr Alice Taylor; Mr Stephen Gaw
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-12-03T10:26:53Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-12-10T10:43:19Z