Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Observation of novel charge ordering and spin reorientation in perovskite oxide PbFeO3

  • Xubin Ye,
  • Jianfa Zhao,
  • Hena Das,
  • Denis Sheptyakov,
  • Junye Yang,
  • Yuki Sakai,
  • Hajime Hojo,
  • Zhehong Liu,
  • Long Zhou,
  • Lipeng Cao,
  • Takumi Nishikubo,
  • Shogo Wakazaki,
  • Cheng Dong,
  • Xiao Wang,
  • Zhiwei Hu,
  • Hong-Ji Lin,
  • Chien-Te Chen,
  • Christoph Sahle,
  • Anna Efiminko,
  • Huibo Cao,
  • Stuart Calder,
  • Ko Mibu,
  • Michel Kenzelmann,
  • Liu Hao Tjeng,
  • Runze Yu,
  • Masaki Azuma,
  • Changqing Jin,
  • Youwen Long

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22064-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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PbFeO3 is part of a family of lead based perovskites with many intriguing properties; however, difficulties in synthesis have hampered investigation. Here, the authors present a detailed study of the structure of PbFeO3 observing unique charge ordering and spin orientation among the constituent ions.