Abstract
The present work is a study by nmr pulse techniques of the motion of fluorine atoms in lanthanum trifluoride as a function of temperature, between 100 and 560°C. The experiments have been conducted with a single crystal of La. The model for the motions derived from this study is the following: There are two types of fluorine nuclei, the spins and the spins , located on different sublattices. Between 100 and 300°C, the motion of the spins is fast (i.e., such as to be appreciable in times shorter than the reciprocal of the rigid-lattice line width), and the motion of the spins is slow. There is an exchange of atoms between the two sublattices, the rate of which is slow up to about 300°C and fast at higher temperature. The ratio of populations of the spins and is . Approximate values are derived for the activiation energies associated with these two types of motion.
- Received 29 November 1965
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.144.321
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