Formation of NaCl-type monodeuteride LaD by the disproportionation reaction of LaD

Machida, Akihiko; Honda, Mitsunori*; Hattori, Takanori; Sano, Asami; Watanuki, Tetsu; Katayama, Yoshinori; Aoki, Katsutoshi; Komatsu, Kazuki*; Arima, Hiroshi*; Oshita, Hidetoshi*; et al.

Physical Review Letters, 108(20), p.205501_1 - 205501_5, 2012/05

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.205501

Hydrogen atoms absorbed in a metal occupy the interstitial sites of the metal lattice. In an fcc metal lattice, each metal atom has two tetrahedral (T) and one octahedral (O) sites that can accommodate hydrogen. Rare-earth metal La forms T-site occupied LaH and fully occupied LaH. O-site occupied or NaCl-type monohydride has yet to be reported for rare-earth metals. Previous X-ray diffraction measurements revealed the pressure-induced decomposition of an fcc-LaH into H-rich and H-poor phases around 11 GPa. The present neutron diffraction measurements on LaD confirm the formation of NaCl-type LaD as a counterpart of the D-rich LaD by disproportionation. First-principle calculations demonstrate that the NaCl-type LaH is stabilized at high pressures. Finding the NaCl-type LaH will pave the way for investigations on the site-dependent nature of hydrogen-metal interactions.

Effect of hydrogenation on the electronic state of metallic La hydrides probed by X-ray absorption sectroscopy at the La -edges

Ishimatsu, Naoki*; Sasada, Ryohei*; Maruyama, Hiroshi*; Ichikawa, Takayuki*; Miyaoka, Hiroki*; Kimura, Toru*; Tsubota, Masami*; Kojima, Yoshitsugu*; Tsumuraya, Takao*; Oguchi, Tamio*; et al.

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 190, p.012070_1 - 012070_4, 2009/11

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/190/1/012070

We have investigated the effect of hydrogenation on La and electronic states in metallic LaH by X-ray absorption near edge structure at the La -edges. As the hydrogen content increases from 0 to 2.6, white-line intensity at the La -edges shows a remarkable increase in the range of 2.0. This is interpreted as the increase in La hole induced by interstitial H atoms on the octahedral sites. On the other hand, the shoulder structure at the La -edge disappears in the process of = 0.0 2.0, indicating that the - hybridization is weakened by H atoms on the tetrahedral sites. This study demonstrates that H atoms on the two interstitial H sites provide different contribution to the modification of the electronic states.

Direct observation of field-induced variant transformation in FePt using pulsed magnetic field X-ray diffraction

Ouyang, Z. W.*; Matsuda, Yasuhiro*; Nojiri, Hiroyuki*; Inami, Toshiya; Owada, Kenji; Tsubota, Masami*; Sakon, Takuo*; Fukuda, Takashi*; Kakeshita, Tomoyuki*

Journal of Applied Physics, 102(11), p.113917_1 - 113917_6, 2007/12

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2822278

Doping Momentum dependence of charge dynamics in NdCeCuO (x=0, 0.075, and 0.15) studied by Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering

Ishii, Kenji; Tsutsui, Kenji*; Endo, Yasuo*; Toyama, Takami*; Maekawa, Sadamichi*; Hoesch, M.; Kuzushita, Kaori; Inami, Toshiya; Tsubota, Masami; Yamada, Kazuyoshi*; et al.

AIP Conference Proceedings 850, p.403 - 404, 2006/09

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2354756

We report a resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) study of charge excitations in the electron-doped high- superconductor NdCeCuO. The intraband and interband excitations across the Fermi energy are separated for the first time by tuning the experimental conditions properly to measure charge excitations at low energy. A dispersion relation with -dependent width emerges clearly in the intraband excitation, while the intensity of the interband excitation is concentrated around 2 eV near the zone center. The experimental results are consistent with theoretical calculation of the RIXS spectra based on the Hubbard model.

Quest for the high-filed phase of CdCrO using an X-ray diffraction technique

Inami, Toshiya; Owada, Kenji; Tsubota, Masami; Murata, Yuto*; Matsuda, Yasuhiro*; Nojiri, Hiroyuki*; Ueda, Hiroaki*; Murakami, Yoichi*

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 51, p.502 - 505, 2006/00

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/51/1/114

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Momentum dependence of charge excitations in the electron-doped superconductor NdCeCuO; A Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering study

Ishii, Kenji; Tsutsui, Kenji*; Endo, Yasuo*; Toyama, Takami*; Maekawa, Sadamichi*; Hoesch, M.; Kuzushita, Kaori; Tsubota, Masami; Inami, Toshiya; Mizuki, Junichiro; et al.

Physical Review Letters, 94(20), p.207003_1 - 207003_4, 2005/05

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.207003

We report a resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) study of charge excitations in the electron-doped high- superconductor NdCeCuO. The intraband and interband excitations across the Fermi energy are separated for the first time by tuning the experimental conditions properly to measure charge excitations at low energy. A dispersion relation with -dependent width emerges clearly in the intraband excitation, while the intensity of the interband excitation is concentrated around 2 eV near the zone center. The experimental results are consistent with theoretical calculation of the RIXS spectra based on the Hubbard model.

Neutron diffraction study of pressure-induced phase separation of LaD

Aoki, Katsutoshi; Machida, Akihiko; Honda, Mitsunori; Hattori, Takanori; Sano, Asami; Watanuki, Tetsu; Katayama, Yoshinori; Komatsu, Kazuki*; Arima, Hiroshi; Otomo, Toshiya*; et al.

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Neutron diffraction measurements have revealed that LaD undergoes phase separation at high pressure with the relocation of deuterium atoms in the interstitial sites of La metal lattice. Deuterium atoms, which occupy the tetrahedral sites of the fcc metal lattice in LaD, move into the empty octahedral sites at 11 GPa to form LaD and LaD both having fcc metal lattices. Mono-hydride with an NaCl structure, which is common for mono-hydrides of transition metals, is formed in rare-earth metals for the first time. The first-principle calculations showed that LaH is stable at low pressure and it undergoes a phase separation into LaH and LaH at 10 GPa, which is excellent agreement with the experimental results. Enthalpy comparison shows that unusual volume contraction in LaH than LaH explains the phase separation phenomena. Lattice dynamics calculations on these lanthanum hydrides shed light on the detailed mechanism.

An X-ray diffraction experiment of the magnetization plateau phase of CdCrO

Inami, Toshiya; Owada, Kenji; Tsubota, Masami; Matsuda, Yasuhiro*; Nojiri, Hiroyuki*; Ueda, Hiroaki*

no journal, , 

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Resonant X-ray scattering of PrRuP

Ishii, Kenji; Tsubota, Masami; Inami, Toshiya; Tsutsui, Satoshi*; Hao, L.*; Hasegawa, Tomoo*; Iwasa, Kazuaki*; Murakami, Yoichi; Sugawara, Hitoshi*; Saha, S. R.*; et al.

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PrRuP shows a metal-insulator (MI) transition at 62 K accompanied by a structural phase transition. Because LaRuP without electrons does not shows the MI transition, electrons in the Pr atom plays an important role in the transition. In order to elucidate a modulation of electronic states of Pr, we have carried out a resonant X-ray scattering study of PrRuP at Pr - and -edges. Below , resonant signal at the absorption main-edge was successfully observed at the superlattice reflections of the modulation vector in addition to the energy-independent component from the lattice distortion. Because the reflection contains the difference of anomalous scattering factors between two Pr atoms in the unit cell, two different electronic states are actually ordered below . Furthermore we found that the polarization of X-ray is mostly unrotated even at the resonance, which indicates that the resonant scattering in PrRuP is almost isotropic.

Ionic conduction path in AgGeSe superionic glass

Kawakita, Yukinobu; Otomo, Toshiya*; Ueno, Hiroki; Tsubota, Masami*; Kumara, L. S. R.*; Oshita, Hidetoshi*; Suzuya, Kentaro

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Ag(GeSe) ternary alloy exhibits an extensive compositional range of bulk glass forming and a rapid enhancement in ionic conductivity from 10 to 10 S/cm of these glasses at Ag concentration of x=0.3 with increasing Ag content. Structural models of this material have already been proposed by reverse Monte Carlo simulation based on experimental structural data of neutron and X-ray diffractions and X-ray absorption fine structure. However, there observed micro-phase separation tendency in these glasses. This tendency might relate to formation of ionic conduction path in supercooled liquid on quenching process. The proposed models will be examined by structure factors over a wide Q range including relatively low momentum-transfer region which have been newly obtained by the total neutron scattering instrument installed at BL21 in MLF, J-PARC. This work was supported by NEDO under "Advanced Fundamental Research Project on Hydrogen Storage Materials".