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Mössbauer measurements on single crystal absorbers at room and at low temperatures were performed. The results are fully consistent with previously published reports by other groups. Spectra of single crystals were simultaneously analyzed including magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole interactions. The analysis shows that there is a small component of magnetic moments perpendicular to the magnetic easy axis. Mössbauer data seem not agree with commonly accepted ferrimagnetic structure of GaFeO3.
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This work was partly supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, grant OPUS no 2018/31/B/ST3/00279 and by the Polish Government Plenipotentiary for JINR in Dubna (Project no PWB/168-10/2021).
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Szymański, K., Olszewski, W., Butkiewicz, P. et al. Mössbauer measurements of GaFeO3 single crystal multiferroic. Hyperfine Interact 242, 26 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-021-01746-2
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