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Negative thermal expansion and magnetoelastic coupling in the breathing pyrochlore lattice material LiGaCr4S8

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arxiv 1802.00158 v2 pith:XMTQW6IX submitted 2018-02-01 cond-mat.other cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Negative thermal expansion and magnetoelastic coupling in the breathing pyrochlore lattice material LiGaCr4S8

classification cond-mat.other cond-mat.mtrl-sci
keywords diffractionmagneticcouplingexpansionligacr4s8susceptibilitythermallattice
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The physical properties of the spinel LiGaCr4S8 have been studied with neutron diffraction, X-ray diffraction, magnetic susceptibility and heat capacity measurements. The neutron diffraction and synchrotron X-ray diffraction data reveal negative thermal expansion (NTE) below 111(4) K. The magnetic susceptibility deviates from Curie-Weiss behavior with the onset of NTE. At low temperature a broad peak in the magnetic susceptibility at 10.3(3) K is accompanied by the return of normal thermal expansion. First principles calculations find a strong coupling between the lattice and the simulated magnetic ground state. These results indicate strong magnetoelastic coupling in LiGaCr4S8.

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