THE MAGNETIC-STRUCTURE OF COBALT DIPHOSPHATE CO2P2O7
THE MAGNETIC-STRUCTURE OF COBALT DIPHOSPHATE CO2P2O7
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DOI:
10.1088/0953-8984/1/1/015
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发表时间:
1989-01-09
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
WANKLYN, BM
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作者:
FORSYTH, JB;WILKINSON, C;WANKLYN, BM
Cobalt diphosphate is shown to become antiferromagnetically ordered below 10.20 (5) K and its magnetic structure has been determined from single-crystal unpolarised neutron diffraction measurements at 3.9 K. The structure contains two crystallographically independent Co (II) ions, Co (1) and Co (2), with moments of 3.60 (2) mu B and 3.62 (2) mu B, respectively. The magnetic propagation vector is (1/200) and the magnetic space group is P 2a 2 1/c. The structure is noncollinear with the moments oriented at the spherical polar angles of theta= 82.1 (2) degrees, phi=-0.42 (2) degrees and theta= 113.5 (2) degrees, phi=-43.7 (2) degrees for Co (1) and Co (2), respectively, the polar axis being parallel to c and phi being measured from the ac plane. The magnetic form factors of the Co 2+ ions show a radical expansion with respect to the free ion in excess of that due to their orbital magnetisation. Magnetic coupling within the (101) sheets of Co 2+ ions includes both direct and super-exchange paths, whereas the coupling between successive sheets must pass through the intervening P 2 O 7 groups via Co-OPO-Co exchange. The orientations of the moments relative to the single-ion anisotropies and the magnetic exchange paths are discussed.