Investigation of the ground state and possible phase coexistence in the multiferroic orthorhombic YMnO3

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Orthorhombic YMnO3 (o-YMnO3) is on the verge of the commensurate E-type phase adjacent to the bc cycloidal spin phase in the multiferroic orthorhombic RMnO3. Both polycrystalline bulk and thin-film samples of o-YMnO3 show a signature of the phase coexistence of these phases. Previous neutron diffraction studies suggested that the magnetic ground state of o-YMnO3 has an incommensurate spin arrangement, which is not compatible with the E-type phase. We manage to synthetize single crystal of o-YMnO3 by high pressure synthesis. We propose to investigate the magnetic ground state of o-YMnO3 and the ferroelectric distortion using the single crystal diffractometer D9 and D10.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-41-696
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-41-696
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Creator Nenert, Gwilherm; Lemee, Marie Helene; Ishiwata, Shintaro; Tokura, Yoshinori
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2013
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Size 763 MB
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Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields