Published May 1, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Pressure effects on crystal structure, magnetic and transport properties of layered perovskite TbBaCo2O5.5

  • 1. Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, ETHZ and PSI, CH-5232 Villigen PSI (Switzerland)
  • 2. Laboratory for Developments and Methods, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI (Switzerland)
  • 3. Institute for Metal Physics RAS, 620219 Ekaterinburg GSP-170 (Russian Federation)
  • 4. II. Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet zu Koeln, Zuelpicherstr. 77, 50937 Cologne (Germany)

Description

The complex behavior of the RBaCo2O5.5 perovskites, which include a metal-insulator (MI) as well as successive magnetic (PM->FM->AFM) transitions, is suggested to be related to an interplay between spin, charge and orbital degrees of freedom of the Co3+ ions. We have investigated the effect of pressure on the structural, magnetic and electronic properties of TbBaCo2O5.5 by means of neutron powder diffraction (p=1.2GPa), magnetization (p=1.2GPa), and resistivity measurements (p=2.6GPa), respectively. Contrary to the results reported on conventional (La,Sr)CoO3 perovskites, we find that the pressure coefficients of the transition temperatures TN, TC, as well as TMI are rather small (<1K/GPa), suggesting a weak change of the spin states at the MI transition. We further show, that pressure and temperature have different effects on the volumes of the CoO6 octahedron and CoO5 pyramid in the layered double-perovskite

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2006.01.405;
PII
S0921-4526(06)00258-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
378-380
Journal Page Range
p. 537-538
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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