Figure 6
Temperature dependence of M–M interatomic distances of (left) Mn3Fe2Si3 and (right) Mn5Si3 as a function of temperature, normalized to the value at 300 K, obtained on the basis of refinements from synchrotron X-ray single-crystal diffraction data (Mn3Fe2Si3) and extracted from the literature data (Mn5Si3; Gottschilch et al., 2012). Temperatures of the AF1–AF2 and AF2–PM transitions are indicated by dashed lines. The assignment of the distances is shown in Fig. S2 in the supporting information. Note that in Mn5Si3 the M1—M1 distances are split in the monoclinic AF1 phase. Estimated standard deviations are smaller than the size of the symbols, if not shown otherwise. Symmetry codes: (i) x, y, −z − ; (ii) −x + 1, −y, −z; (iii) −y + 1, x − y, z; (iv) −y + 1, x − y, z. |