Precursor effects and premartensitic transformation in Ni2MnGa.
Precursor effects and premartensitic transformation in Ni2MnGa.
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10.1103/physrevb.54.15045
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1996-12
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A. Zheludev;S. M. Shapiro;P. Wochner;Lee E. Tanner
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作者:
A. Zheludev;S. M. Shapiro;P. Wochner;Lee E. Tanner
Inelastic neutron scattering and neutron diffraction were used to study a single crystal of the Ni{sub 2}MnGa shape memory Heusler alloy in a wide temperature range covering the parent phase ({ital T}{gt}{ital T}{sub 1}=260 K), a premartensitic phase ({ital T}{sub 1}{gt}{ital T}{gt}{ital T}{sub {ital M}}), and a martensitic ({ital T}{lt}{ital T}{sub {ital M}}=220 K) phase region. Several anomalies in the phonon dispersion curves in the parent phase were observed. The premartensitic phase involves a transverse modulation of the parent cubic structure with a simple periodicity of (1/3,1/3,0). The approximately tetragonal lattice of the low-temperature martensite is distorted by transverse modulations with incommensurate wave vectors ({zeta}{sub {ital M}},{zeta}{sub {ital M}},0), {zeta}{sub {ital M}}{approx_equal}0.43. The observed phenomena are attributed to electron-phonon interactions and anharmonic effects. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}