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Structural and Magnetic Phase Transitions in the Multiferroic HoFe3(BO3)4 Observed by Mössbauer Spectroscopy and X-ray Diffraction

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The temperature dependences of the structural parameters in a HoFe3(BO3)4 single crystal, studied by X-ray diffraction below and above the structural phase transition at TS = 365 K, correlate well with behavior of the Mössbauer parameter quadrupole interaction. However, two structural positions Fe1 and Fe2 of iron ions formed in the phase with space group P3121, which appears at temperatures below TS, cannot be distinguished by Mössbauer spectroscopy at 57Fe nuclei. This becomes possible only below the Néel temperature TN. It has been established that below TN, iron ions form a 3D magnetic order of the Ising type with critical parameters β = 0.283(1) and the dimension of the order parameter n = 1. The refined value of the Néel temperature is TN = 37.42(1) K. The dynamics of changes in the Mössbauer parameters of the quadrupole shift and the magnetic hyperfine field Bhf, observed near the temperature T = 4.4 K for iron ions in the Fe1 and Fe2 positions, indicates a reorientation of the magnetic moments of iron. This correlates with the spin-reorientation transition of Fe and Ho ions, previously observed by neutron diffraction in HoFe3(BO3)4.

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This work was supported by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the State assignment FSRC “Crystallography and Photonics” RAS and performed using the equipment of the Shared Research Center “Structural diagnostics of materials” of FSRC “Crystallography and Photonics” RAS.

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  1. Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of FSRC “Crystallography and Photonics” RAS, 119333, Moscow, Russia

    K. V. Frolov, O. A. Alekseeva, I. S. Lyubutin, E. S. Smirnova & M. V. Lyubutina

  2. Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry, JGU Mainz, 55128, Mainz, Germany

    V. Ksenofontov

  3. Max-Planck Institut für Chemie, 55128, Mainz, Germany

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  4. Kirensky Institute of Physics SB RAS, 660036, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

    V. L. Temerov & I. A. Gudim

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Frolov, K.V., Alekseeva, O.A., Lyubutin, I.S. et al. Structural and Magnetic Phase Transitions in the Multiferroic HoFe3(BO3)4 Observed by Mössbauer Spectroscopy and X-ray Diffraction. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 135, 698–707 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776122110036

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