Helical scattering signatures of strain and electronic textures in YbFe2O4 from three-dimensional reciprocal-space imaging

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关键词: CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE;    CHARGE;    ANTIFERROMAGNET;    MAGNETIZATION;    TRANSPORT;    LUFE2O4;   

DOI  :  10.1103/PhysRevB.85.014115

来源: SCIE

【 摘 要 】

The insulating ternary oxide YbFe2O4 displays an unusual frustration-driven incommensurate charge-ordering (CO) transition, linked to possible ferroelectricity. Based on high-resolution synchrotron data, we report a detailed structural model showing that the CO phase is an incommensurate charge-density wave and cannot be ferroelectric, since the electrical dipole moments are also incommensurately modulated. The change between continuous and spotty helices of scattering at the CO transition is attributed to three-dimensional fluctuations of the direction of the ordering wave vector.

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