Abstract
We report the continuous variation of the spin moment of cobalt in across its temperature and pressure-induced spin transitions evidenced with emission spectra. The first thermal transition is best described by a transition to an orbitally nondegenerate intermediate spin state. In parallel, continuous redistribution of the electrons is also indicated by partial fluorescence yield x-ray absorption spectra. At high pressure, our study confirms that the material becomes low spin between 40 and 70 kbar at room temperature.
4 More- Received 26 September 2005
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.024424
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