Indirect Magnetic Exchange Interactions in  -Fe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>and Cr<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>

W P Osmond

Proceedings of the Physical Society · 1962 · 26 citations · 9 references

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Abstract

It is shown that the different antiferromagnetic arrangements of ordered magnetic spins in the identical lattices of α-Fe2O3 and Cr2O3 can be explained by the overlap of suitably directed oxygen p orbitals and the differently populated d orbitals of the Fe3+ and Cr3+ ions.

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