Exchange-induced autoionization in Eu-Rich EuO

Abstract

Below the Curie temperature, with increasing magnetic order, Eu-rich EuO shows both a change of 0.15 mm/sec in the Eu151 isomer shift and an insulator-metal transition with a resistivity change of more than 13 orders of magnitude. These effects are interpreted on the basis of an exchange-induced configurational change (autoionization) of two electrons trapped at an oxygen vacancy. © 1971 The American Physical Society.