Ordering and Antiferromagnetism in Ferrites (original) (raw)

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Abstract

The octahedral sites in the spinel structure form one of the anomalous lattices in which it is possible to achieve essentially perfect short-range order while maintaining a finite entropy. In such a lattice nearest-neighbor forces alone can never lead to long-range order, while calculations indicate that even the longrange Coulomb forces are only 5% effective in creating long-range order. This is shown to have many possible consequences both for antiferromagnetism in "normal" ferrites and for ordering in "inverse" ferrites.

Publication:

Physical Review

Pub Date:

May 1956

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRev.102.1008

Bibcode:

1956PhRv..102.1008A