Published May 1, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Structural instabilities in Nb, Ti and K substituted BaVS3

  • 1. Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (CNRS UMR 8502), Universite Paris-Sud, Batiment 510, 91405 Orsay cedex (France)
  • 2. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854 (United States)
  • 3. LCM3B (UMR UHP-CNRS 7036), Faculte des Sciences et Techniques, B.P. 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy (France)

Description

The one-dimensional (1D) strongly correlated BaVS3 undergoes a series of unexplained phase transitions. Among them it undergoes a metal-insulator (MI) transition associated with a 2kF=c*/2 charge density wave (CDW) instability. We show that this CDW ground state is very sensitive to chemical substitutions and/or sulfur deficiency. Substitutions of V with ∼2% of Nb, Ti or Ba with ∼2% K in probably sulfur deficient samples leads to a completely different ground state. This ground state is characterized by a short range structural modulation with the incommensurate wave vector qS=(13130.21)H, which could be due to a CDW taking place in a differently filled dz2 band

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2006.01.487;
PII
S0921-4526(06)00505-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
378-380
Journal Page Range
p. 1068-1069
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

Conference

Title
International conference on strongly correlated electron systems
Acronym
SCES 2005
Dates
26-30 Jul 2005
Place
Vienna (Austria)

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