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R V Pisarev1, I Sänger, G A Petrakovskii
1Ioffe Physical Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia.
Abstract:
Three types of optical magnetic-field induced second harmonic (MFISH) generation are observed in CuB2O4. Unusually sharp and intense electronic transitions in MFISH and linear absorption spectra provide selective access to the two nonequivalent Cu2+ sublattices. The magnetic phase diagram for both sublattices is determined by MFISH. Magnetic structure is dominated by antiferromagnetic order at the 4b site. Sublattice interactions transfer it to the 8d site where it coexists with a discoupled paramagnetic component.
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