Abstract
In contrast to the usual structural "lock-in" incommensurate-commensurate transitions—where the amplitude of the modulation wave continues to increase at but the incommensurate part of the average wave vector of the modulation wave vanishes—in Mn the amplitude of the incommensurate modulation wave vanishes outside and whereas the wave vector is not critical. This reentrant behavior results from a coupling of the incommensurate order parameter to the temperature-dependent interlayer distance.
- Received 5 April 1982
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.1019
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