Magnetoelasticity of a Jahn–Teller Subsystem in Chromium-Doped II–VI Crystals

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The influence of an external magnetic field on the complex elastic moduli of crystals with a sphalerite or zinc blende (ZnSe) and wurtzite (CdSe) structure lightly doped by Cr2+ ions has been investigated. Measurements have been performed in the frequency interval 26–32 MHz at 1.4 K. In II–VI crystals, bivalent chromium cations are triply orbital-degenerate in the ground state and, being in a tetrahedral environment, produce Jahn–Teller complexes. These complexes are described in terms of the T ⊗ (e + t2)-problem and exhibit the adiabatic potential energy surface with the global minima of tetragonal symmetry. It has been found that in ZnSe:Cr2+ crystals, a magnetic field directed along the [001] and [110] axes influences modulus (c11 – c12)/2 and does not influence modulus c44. In CdSe:Cr2+ crystals, however, moduli c55 and c66, which are the analogs of (c11 – c12)/2 and c44, depend on the magnetic field directed along the [101¯0101¯0] and [21¯1¯021¯1¯0] axes, respectively. The discovered anomalous behavior of the elastic moduli with magnetic field has been treated in terms of a model that takes into account the crystal field, vibronic and spin-orbital interactions, and the contribution of the Jahn–Teller subsystem to isothermal moduli determined at a constant magnetic induction. Good agreement with experimental dependences of the elastic moduli in strong magnetic fields has been obtained, and it has been shown that the nonmonotonic variation in weak magnetic fields (below 2 T) should be associated with a magnetic field dependence of the relaxation time.

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M. N Sarychev

Ural Federal University

Email: v.v.gudkov@urfu.ru
620002, Yekaterinburg, Russia

I. V Zhevstovskikh

Ural Federal University; Mikheev Institute of Metal Physics, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: v.v.gudkov@urfu.ru
620002, Yekaterinburg, Russia; 620137, Yekaterinburg, Russia

Yu. V Korostelin

Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: v.v.gudkov@urfu.ru
119991, Moscow, Russia

V. T Surikov

Institute of Solid-State Chemistry, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: v.v.gudkov@urfu.ru
620990, Yekaterinburg, Russia

N. S Averkiev

Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: v.v.gudkov@urfu.ru
194021, St. Petersburg, Russia

V. V Gudkov

Ural Federal University

Author for correspondence.
Email: v.v.gudkov@urfu.ru
620002, Yekaterinburg, Russia

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