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Melting of Pb Charge Glass and Simultaneous Pb-Cr Charge Transfer in PbCrO3 as the Origin of Volume Collapse

  • Runze Yu
  • , Hajime Hojo
  • , Tetsu Watanuki
  • , Masaichiro Mizumaki
  • , Takashi Mizokawa
  • , Kengo Oka
  • , Hyunjeong Kim
  • , Akihiko Machida
  • , Kouji Sakaki
  • , Yumiko Nakamura
  • , Akane Agui
  • , Daisuke Mori
  • , Yoshiyuki Inaguma
  • , Martin Schlipf
  • , Konstantin Z. Rushchanskii
  • , Marjana Ležaić
  • , Masaaki Matsuda
  • , Jie Ma
  • , Stuart Calder
  • , Masahiko Isobe
  • Yuichi Ikuhara, Masaki Azuma

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    Abstract

    A metal to insulator transition in integer or half integer charge systems can be regarded as crystallization of charges. The insulating state tends to have a glassy nature when randomness or geometrical frustration exists. We report that the charge glass state is realized in a perovskite compound PbCrO3, which has been known for almost 50 years, without any obvious inhomogeneity or triangular arrangement in the charge system. PbCrO3 has a valence state of Pb2+0.5Pb4+0.5Cr3+O3 with Pb2+-Pb4+ correlation length of three lattice-spacings at ambient condition. A pressure induced melting of charge glass and simultaneous Pb-Cr charge transfer causes an insulator to metal transition and ∼10% volume collapse.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)12719-12728
    Number of pages10
    JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society
    Volume137
    Issue number39
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Oct 7 2015

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