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Synthesis, structural, magnetic and phase-transition studies of the ferromagnetic La2CoMnO6 double perovskite by
B Orayech1, I Urcelay-Olabarria, G A López
1Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad del País Vasco, P.O. Box 644, Bilbao 48080, Spain. brahim.orayech@ehu.es.
Abstract:
A powdered La2CoMnO6 double perovskite was synthesized by the solid-state reaction method, and its crystal structure was investigated by (mode-crystallography) Rietveld analysis using X-ray and neutron powder diffraction data. La2CoMnO6 material is a monoclinic perovskite at room temperature, adopting the space group P21/n (a(-)a(-)b(+)), , c ≈ 2ap and Z = 2. The P21/n phase can be described effectively by three distortion modes (GM4(+), X3(+), X5(+)) of the Fm3[combining macron]m (a(0)a(0)a(0)) parent phase. The comparative study of the material and those in the Ln2CoMnO6 and Ln2NiMnO6 families has shown a general trend in nearly all the materials, has served to select a common direction in the sub-space spanned by X5(+), tri-linearly coupled to the order parameters of the cubic to monoclinic first order phase transition. This direction has been used to parametrize the refinements and to perform reliable refinements in the high-temperature intermediate distorted trigonal phase, R3[combining macron] (a(-)a(-)a(-)), for which only one effectively acting irrep has been deduced: GM5(+), physically a tilt of the oxygen sharing octahedra of Co and Mn. Its temperature evolution up to the prototype cubic phase has been fitted in the framework of the Landau Theory of Phase Transitions, showing a behavior typical of a tricritical point. The low-temperature neutron powder diffraction data have served to solve the magnetic structure: three indistinguishable ferromagnetic models with the space groups P21/n and P2/n' are proposed.
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