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TT 44: Poster Session Correlated Electrons

TT 44.34: Poster

Donnerstag, 17. März 2011, 10:00–13:00, P1

Phase diagram of NaFe(WO4)2 — •Yvonne Sanders1, Stephanie Orbe1, Oliver Heyer1, Sven Jodlauk2, Sebastian Albiez2, Petra Becker2, Ladislav Bohatý2, and Thomas Lorenz11II. Physikalisches Institut, University of Cologne, Germany — 2Institut für Kristallographie, University of Cologne, Germany

Multiferroic materials show simultaneous ferroelectric and magnetic order, which are strongly coupled to each other. A well-known model system is MnWO4 with only one kind of magnetic ions and three magnetically ordered phases below ∼13 K. Here, the multiferroic behavior of one of these phases arises from an incommensurate spin spiral structure. Much less is known about the double tungstate NaFe(WO4)2, which has a structure closely related to MnWO4. While in MnWO4 sheets || (100) of MnO6 zig-zag chains alternate with similar sheets of WO6, in NaFe(WO4)2 an alternating sheet sequence FeO6-WO6-NaO6-WO6 - is found. Consequently, the a lattice parameter is doubled and the magnetic subsystem is diluted. The ordering temperature in NaFe(WO4)2 is reduced to TN≈ 4 K. The magnetic structure in zero magnetic field is reported to be collinear antiferromagnetic, but the H-T phase diagram has not been published so far. Here, we present a detailed study of this phase diagram obtained by high-resolution thermal expansion and magnetostriction measurements. We find pronounced hysteresis effects, which resemble those observed in other multiferroic materials.

Supported by the DFG through SFB 608.

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