Abstract
The temperature/pressure phase diagram for is determined using NMR spectroscopy. At ambient pressure, a transition to a charge-ordered (CO) state occurs at , and antiferromagnetic (AF) order is observed below . Both are suppressed with pressure: when , there is no evidence for CO, and the low-temperature NMR spectrum is consistent with a singlet [spin-Peierls (SP)] ground state. At a given pressure, the temperature dependence of the CO order parameter is not monotonic, and provides an opportunity to identify what processes could be controlling the CO amplitude. NMR spectroscopy provides empirical evidence that electron-counterion coupling is crucial to stabilizing the CO and AF phases.
- Received 2 April 2004
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.70.121101
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