Temperature-Driven Self-Doping in Magnetite

Hebatalla Elnaggar, Silvester Graas, Sara Lafuerza, Blanka Detlefs, Wojciech Tabiś, Mateusz A. Gala, Ahmed Ismail, Ad van der Eerden, Marcin Sikora, Jurgen M. Honig, P. Glatzel, Frank de Groot

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Abstract

Magnetite is one of the most fascinating materials exhibiting the enigmatic first-order Verwey transition which is conventionally manipulated through chemical doping. Here, we show that heating magnetite results in a spontaneous charge reordering and, consequently, a hole self-doping effect at the octahedral sublattice. Core-level x-ray spectroscopy measurements combined with theory uncovers that there are three regimes of self-doping that map the temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity and magnetism up to the Curie temperature. Our results provide an elegant analogy between the effect of chemical doping and temperature-driven self-doping on trimerons in magnetite.

Original languageEnglish
Article number186402
Pages (from-to)1-5
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume127
Issue number18
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Oct 2021

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