Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Pressure tuning of charge ordering in iron oxide

  • Sergey V. Ovsyannikov,
  • Maxim Bykov,
  • Elena Bykova,
  • Konstantin Glazyrin,
  • Rudra Sekhar Manna,
  • Alexander A. Tsirlin,
  • Valerio Cerantola,
  • Ilya Kupenko,
  • Alexander V. Kurnosov,
  • Innokenty Kantor,
  • Anna S. Pakhomova,
  • Irina Chuvashova,
  • Aleksandr I. Chumakov,
  • Rudolf Rüffer,
  • Catherine McCammon,
  • Leonid S. Dubrovinsky

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06457-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The charge order transition of commonly known magnetite has only recently been unraveled. Here, the measurement of the low-temperature high-pressure phase diagram of a related material (Fe4O5) elucidates the interplay of average oxidation state and charge-ordering phenomena in the iron oxide family.