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A high resolution synchrotron x-ray study of the weakly-incommensurate phase of high stage bromine-intercalated graphite

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Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter

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We report the results of a high resolution synchrotron x-ray scattering study of the weakly incommensurate stripe domain phase of high stage bromine-intercalated graphite. The translational order in this system is two-dimensional in nature.) We demonstrate power-law behaviour at five harmonics (G) of the mass density wave, and confirm the scaling of the structure factor withG 2. Our results are consistent with recent theories of the two dimensional uniaxial commensurate-incommensurate transition, which are based on an entropically wandering domain wall picture of the incommensurate phase. We demonstrate that, in this system, the domain walls have a width much less than their separation so that significant molecular displacements from the commensurate sites occur within a unit cell. Close to the transition, we observe hysteresis.

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    Present address: AT&T Bell Laboratories, 07974, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

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  1. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    S. G. J. Mochrie, A. R. Kortan & R. J. Birgeneau

  2. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 10598, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

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Mochrie, S.G.J., Kortan, A.R., Birgeneau, R.J. et al. A high resolution synchrotron x-ray study of the weakly-incommensurate phase of high stage bromine-intercalated graphite. Z. Physik B - Condensed Matter 62, 79–95 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01303738

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