Anomalous high-pressure Jahn-Teller behavior in CuWO4
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Ruiz Fuertes, Javier; Segura, A.; Rodríguez González, Fernando; Errandonea, D.; Sanz Ortiz, Marta NorahFecha
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Physical Review Letters, 2012, 108(16), 166402
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High-pressure optical-absorption measurements performed in CuWO4 up to 20 GPa provide experimental evidence of the persistence of the Jahn-Teller (JT) distortion in the whole pressure range both in the low-pressure triclinic and in the high-pressure monoclinic phase. The electron-lattice couplings associated with the eg(E⊗e) and t2g(T⊗e) orbitals of Cu2+ in
CuWO4 are obtained from correlations between the JT distortion of the CuO6 octahedron and the associated structure of Cu2+ d-electronic levels. This distortion and its associated JT energy (EJT) decrease upon compression in both phases. However, both the distortion and associated EJT increase sharply at the phase-transition pressure (PPT=9.9 GPa), and we estimate that the JT distortion persists for a wide pressure range not being suppressed up to 37 GPa. These results shed light on the transition mechanism of multiferroic CuWO4, suggesting that the pressure-induced structural phase transition is a way to minimize the distortive effects associated with the toughness of the JT distortion.
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