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Incommensurate spin density wave in metallic V[sub 2[minus][ital y]]O[sub 3]

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters; (United States)
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  1. The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218 (United States) National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899 (United States) The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (United States) AT T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 (United States) ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806 (United States) Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 (United States)
We show by neutron diffraction that metallic V[sub 2[minus]7]O[sub 3] develops a spin density wave below [ital T][sub [ital N]][approx]9 K with incommensurate wave vector [ital q][approx]1.7[ital c][sup *] and an ordered moment of 0.15[mu][sub [ital B]]. The weak ordering phenomenon is accompanied by strong, nonresonant spin fluctuations with a velocity [ital c]=67(4) meV A. The spin correlations of the metal are very different from those of the insulator and place V[sub 2[minus][ital y]]O[sub 3] in a distinct class of Motte-Hubbard systems where the wave vector for magnetic order in the metal is far from a high symmetry commensurate reciprocal lattice point.
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-90ER45427
OSTI ID:
6049996
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters; (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; (United States) Vol. 71:5; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English