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Getting more out of an incommensurately modulated structure: the example of K5Yb(MoO4)4
Alla Arakcheeva1, Gervais Chapuis
1Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratoire de cristallographie, BSP, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. gervais.chapuis@epfl.ch
Abstract:
A method based on the superspace approach is presented with the aim of generating a family of modular structures from a single incommensurately modulated structure. This approach based on the variation of the modulation vector q is applied to the generation of the K5Yb(MoO4)4, potassium ytterbium tetramolybdate, family of modular structures. The beta coefficient of the modulation vector q = betab* is a temperature-dependent variable which determines the modification. Our method gives a unified frame to describe and explain the three temperature-dependent phases of K5Yb(MoO4)4. Phase beta can be represented as a polytypic modification with 1/2b* < or = q < or = 2/3b*; phases gamma (q = 1/2b*) and alpha (q = 1b*) are the lowest and the highest temperature members of the K5Yb(MoO4)4 family, respectively.
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