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NiSO₄

MAGNDATA entry 1.520 · source

antiferromagnet

No net magnetisation, and up and down sublattices are related by a shift or by inversion, so the bands stay spin-degenerate: a conventional antiferromagnet.

Spin group ¹m¹m¹m × ²1: each symmetry marked ¹ keeps every spin, ² swaps up and down.

ordered ≤ 37 K (−236 °C)Colour: where that sits relative to 25 °C. Saturation: how much margin it has.

Structure · 10 properties

Magnetic group	P_C b c n BNS 60.431
Parent space group	C m c m No. 63
Spins	collinear · net moment 0 μ_B per cell
Propagation	[1 0 0] 1k
Cell	a 5.155 · b 7.842 · c 6.338 Å · α 90° · β 90° · γ 90°
Transition	37 K (−236 °C)
Measured at	4.2 K
Magnetic ions	Ni
Largest moment component	2.1 μ_B
Method	NPD

Symmetry

Stereogram of the magnetic point group: each operation applied to one direction. Filled = upper hemisphere, ring = lower; red operations include time reversal. Lines are mirrors; polygons are 2/3/4/6-fold axes; the centre ring is inversion.

Every structure in P_C b c n →

Atom sites · 4 sites · CSV

site	element	x	y	z	m_a	m_b	m_c	\|m\| (μ_B)
Ni1	Ni	0	0	0	0	2.1	0	2.1
S1	S	0	0.35	0.25
O1	O	0	0.25	0.02
O2	O	0.25	0.472	0.25

Moment components are along the crystal axes a, b, c (μ_B), as magCIF writes them. Symmetry generates the rest of the cell from these sites.

Source

B. C. Frazer et al. Physical Review (1962) · doi:10.1103/PhysRev.125.1283

Cite the original paper and MAGNDATA, not this mirror.

Original file

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