Figure 9
The pressure dependence of the shear and angular distortion in (a) JT-distorted NiO6 octahedra in NaNiO2 and (b) JT-undistorted FeO6 octahedra in Fe2O3. Shear distortion is represented with the Q4, Q5 and Q6 modes for the octahedra, and angular distortion is represented by bond-angle variance. Dashed lines indicate a fitted straight line to the data, whereas solid lines are plotted from point to point. η is the angular shear fraction defined in equation (22). Note that for the NiO6 octahedra, Q5 = Q6, whereas for FeO6 octahedra, Q4 = Q6 = −Q5. For Fe2O3, the average position of the O ligands was taken as the centre of the octahedron. |