Abstract
Ranjan et al. [Phys. Rev. B 65, 060102(R) (2002)] have recently presented results of a powder neutron-diffraction study of the high-temperature monoclinic to low-temperature monoclinic phase transition in discovered by Ragini et al. [Phys. Rev. B 64, 054101 (2001)]. They attribute the presence of superlattice reflections in the diffraction data to tilting of oxygen octahedra and propose a monoclinic space group for the phase. It is shown that for the model proposed by Ranjan et al., the correct space group of the phase should be This has also been corroborated by a group-theoretical approach to the problem. A different set of refined structural parameters for the space group obtained from the Rietveld analysis of the powder neutron-diffraction data of Ranjan et al. is also presented.
- Received 28 February 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.65.212101
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