High-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering I: Context, spectrometers, samples, and superconductors

AQR Baron - Synchrotron Light Sources and Free-Electron Lasers …, 2020 - Springer
This chapter reviews nonresonant, meV-resolution inelastic x-ray scattering (IXS), as applied
to the measurement of atomic dynamics of crystalline materials. It, in conjunction with a …

Magnetism and the trimeron bond

JP Attfield - Chemistry of Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
A review of progress in understanding the Verwey transition in magnetite (Fe3O4) over the
past decade is presented. This electronic and structural transition at TV≈ 125 K was …

[HTML][HTML] Atomic-scale structure and properties of highly stable antiphase boundary defects in Fe3O4

KP McKenna, F Hofer, D Gilks, VK Lazarov… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The complex and intriguing properties of the ferrimagnetic half metal magnetite (Fe 3 O 4)
are of continuing fundamental interest as well as being important for practical applications in …

Band gap in magnetite above Verwey temperature induced by symmetry breaking

H Liu, C Di Valentin - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2017 - ACS Publications
Magnetite exhibits a famous phase transition, called Verwey transition, at the critical
temperature TV of about 120 K. Although numerous efforts have been devoted to the …

Jahn-Teller distortion driven magnetic polarons in magnetite

HY Huang, ZY Chen, RP Wang, FMF de Groot… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The first known magnetic mineral, magnetite, has unusual properties, which have fascinated
mankind for centuries; it undergoes the Verwey transition around 120 K with an abrupt …

Density functional theory study of local environment effects on oxygen vacancy properties in magnetite

S Srivastava, BP Uberuaga, M Asta - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Density functional theory is employed to compute the properties of oxygen vacancies in the
low-temperature monoclinic phase of magnetite (Fe3O4). A focus is placed on …

Discovery of the soft electronic modes of the trimeron order in magnetite

E Baldini, CA Belvin, M Rodriguez-Vega, IO Ozel… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
The Verwey transition in magnetite (Fe3O4) is the first metal–insulator transition ever
observed and involves a concomitant structural rearrangement and charge–orbital ordering …

Co-emergence of magnetic order and structural fluctuations in magnetite

G Perversi, E Pachoud, J Cumby, JM Hudspeth… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The nature of the Verwey transition occurring at TV≈ 125 K in magnetite (Fe3O4) has been
an outstanding problem over many decades. A complex low temperature electronic order …

Verwey transition as evolution from electronic nematicity to trimerons via electron-phonon coupling

W Wang, J Li, Z Liang, L Wu, PM Lozano… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Understanding the driving mechanisms behind metal-insulator transitions (MITs) is a critical
step toward controlling material's properties. Since the proposal of charge order–induced …

Direct determination of atomic structure and magnetic coupling of magnetite twin boundaries

C Chen, H Li, T Seki, D Yin, G Sanchez-Santolino… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Clarifying how the atomic structure of interfaces/boundaries in materials affects the magnetic
coupling nature across them is of significant academic value and will facilitate the …