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SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 138, Issue 9, Pages 466-471Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssc.2006.03.026
Keywords
acoustic phonons; metal-insulator transition; surface acoustic waves; Brillouin scattering
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Brillouin scattering studies have been carried out on high-quality single crystals of undoped and 0.9% Cr-doped V2O3. The observed modes in both the samples at similar to 12 and similar to 60 GHz are associated with the surface Rayleigh wave (SRW) and bulk acoustic wave (BAW), respectively. In the undoped sample, the mode frequencies of the SRW and BAW modes decrease as the temperature is lowered from room temperature to the insulator-metal transition temperature (T-IM = T-N = similar to 130 K). Below the transition, the modes show hardening. In the doped sample, the SRW mode shows a similar temperature-dependence as the undoped one, but the BAW mode shows hardening from room temperature down to the lowest temperature (50 K). This is the first measurement of the sound velocity below T-IM in the V2O3 system. The softening of the SRW frequency from 330 K to TIm can be qualitatively understood on the basis of the temperature-dependence of C-44, which, in turn, is related to the orbital fluctuations in the paramagnetic metallic phase. The hardening of the mode frequencies below TIm suggests that C-44 must increase in the antiferromagnetic insulating phase, possibly due to the orbital ordering. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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