From giant magneto-elastic coupling to negative thermal expansion

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We recently used high-resolution neutron diffraction on HRPD to observe the largest magneto-elastic coupling ever seen in a metallic magnet. The material studied was CoMnSi, a non-collinear antiferromagnet in which strong competing exchange interactions, rather than the spin-orbit interaction, seem to be the origin of giant magnetoelastic coupling. In this experiment, we propose to extend our study of materials with the same, MnP-based structure to NiMn(Ge,Si) as we believe that we will not only observe giant magneto-elastic coupling but also negative thermal expansion (NTE), again mediated by competing exchange.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24086019
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24086019
Provenance
Creator Dr Zsolt Gercsi; Dr Karl Sandeman; Dr Jérémy Turcaud
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-05-28T07:20:46Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-07-08T08:07:09Z