Symmetry breaking in the metal-insulator transition of BaVS3
2002
It has been believed for a long time that the metal-to-insulator (MI) transition of BaVS 3 is not accompanied by any spatial order of the spin and lattice. We have carried out x-ray-diffraction measurements of BaVS 3 single crystals using a laboratory x-ray source as well as synchrotron radiation, and found that superlattice reflections which double the lattice constant c exist below the transition temperature. The most probable space group at the low-temperature insulator phase contains two inequivalent vanadium sites, and thus a charge disproportionation of the vanadium ions is considered the main cause of the MI transition.
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