Charge and orbital orders and structural instability in high-pressure quadruple perovskite CeCuMn<sub>6</sub>O<sub>12</sub>.
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| Abstract | 
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              We prepared a quadruple perovskite CeCuMn6O12 under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions at 6 GPa and about 1670 K and investigated its structural, magnetic and transport properties. CeCuMn6O12 crystallizes in space group Im-3 above T CO = 297 K; below this temperature, it adopts space group R-3 with the 1:3 (Mn4+:Mn3+) charge and orbital orders. Unusual compressed Mn3+O6 octahedra are realized in CeCuMn6O12 similar to CaMn7O12 with the -Q 3 Jahn-Teller distortion mode. Below about 90 K, structural instability takes place with phase separation and the appearance of competing phases; and below 70 K, two R-3 phases coexist. CeCuMn6O12 exhibits a ferromagnetic-like transition below T C = 140 K, and it is a semiconductor with the magnetoresistance reaching about -40% at 140 K and 70 kOe. We argued that the valence of Ce is +3 in CeCuMn6O12 with the Ce3+([Formula: see text])([Formula: see text])O12 charge distribution in the charge-ordered R-3 phase and Ce3+([Formula: see text])([Formula: see text])O12 in the charge-disordered Im-3 phase.  | 
        
| Year of Publication | 
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              2018 
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| Journal | 
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              Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal 
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              30 
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              7 
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| Number of Pages | 
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              074003 
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| Date Published | 
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              2018 
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| ISSN Number | 
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              0953-8984 
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| URL | 
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              https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/aaa5e4 
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| DOI | 
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              10.1088/1361-648X/aaa5e4 
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| Short Title | 
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              J Phys Condens Matter 
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