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Single Crystals of Cubic Rare-Earth Pyrochlore Germanates: RE 2 Ge 2 O 7 (RE = Yb and Lu) Grown by a High-Temperature Hydrothermal Technique

Here, large single crystals of Yb 2 Ge 2 O 7 in the cubic Fd $\bar{3}$ m space group, are synthesized and characterized from a high-temperature hydrothermal method (650°C/200 MPa in 1 M KF). The cubic phase displays spin frustration and possibly nonclassical quantum-spin behavior at low temperature. Furthermore, this is the first report of single crystals of this important phase of size and quality suitable for single-crystal neutron diffraction.

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Competition between orthorhombic and re-entrant tetragonal phases in underdoped Ba 1–x K x Fe 2 As 2 probed by the response to controlled disorder

Low-temperature (22 K) irradiation with 2.5-MeV electrons, creating point defects affecting elastic scattering, was used to study the competition between stripe C 2 and tetragonal C 4 antiferromagnetic phases which exist in a narrow doping range around x = 0.25 in hole-doped Ba 1–x K x Fe 2 As 2 . In nearby compositions outside of this range, at x = 0.22 and x = 0.19, the temperatures of both the concomitant orthorhombic/stripe antiferromagnetic transition T C2 and the superconducting transition T c are monotonically suppressed by added disorder at similar rates of about 0.1 K/ μ Ωcm, as revealed through using resistivity variation as an intrinsic measure of scattering rate. In a stark contrast, a rapid suppression of the C 4 phase at the rate of 0.24 K/ μ Ωcm is found at x = 0.25. Moreover, this suppression of the C 4 phase is accompanied by unusual disorder-induced stabilization of the C 2 phase, determined by resistivity and specific heat measurements. Furthermore, the rate of the C 4 phase suppression is notably higher than the suppression rate of the spin-vortex phase in the Ni-doped CaKFe 4 As 4 (0.16 K/ μ Ωcm).

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Synthesis and structure determination of Ce 6 Cd 23 Te: a new chalcogen-containing member of the RE 6 Cd 23 T family ( RE is a rare-earth metal and T is a late group 14, 15 and 16 element)

The ternary phase hexacerium tricosacadmium telluride, Ce 6 Cd 23 Te, was synthesized by a high-temperature reaction of the elements in sealed Nb ampoules and was structurally characterized by powder and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The structure, established from single-crystal X-ray diffraction methods, is isopointal with the Zr 6 Zn 23 Si structure type (Pearson symbol cF 120, cubic space group Fm -3 m ), a filled version of the Th 6 Mn 23 structure with the same space group and Pearson symbol cF 116. Though no Cd-containing rare-earth metal binaries are known to form with this structure, it appears that the addition of small amounts of a p -block element allows the formation of such interstitially stabilized ternary compounds. Temperature-dependent direct current (dc) magnetization measurements suggest local-moment magnetism arising from the Ce 3+ ground state, with possible valence fluctuations at low temperature, inferred from the deviations from the Curie–Weiss law.

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