Wednesday, July 4, 2012

1207.0346 (Mariano de Souza et al.)

Magnetic Field-Induced Lattice Effects in a Quasi-2D Organic Conductor
Close to the Mott Metal-Insulator Transition
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Mariano de Souza, Andreas Brühl, Christian Strack, Dieter Schweitzer, Michael Lang
We present ultra-high-resolution dilatometric studies in magnetic fields on a quasi-two-dimensional organic conductor $\kappa$-(D8-BEDT-TTF)$_{2}$Cu[N(CN)$_{2}$]Br, which is located close to the Mott metal-insulator (MI) transition. The obtained thermal expansion coefficient, $\alpha(T)$, reveals two remarkable features: (i) the Mott MI transition temperature $T_{MI}$ = (13.6 $\pm$ 0.6)\,K is insensitive to fields up to 10\,T, the highest applied field; (ii) for fields along the interlayer \emph{b}-axis, a magnetic-field-induced (FI) phase transition at $T_{FI}$ = (9.5 $\pm$ 0.5)\,K is observed above a threshold field $H_c \sim$ 1 T, indicative of a spin reorientation with strong magneto-elastic coupling.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.0346

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