Revision 4 1 2 3 High-pressure behavior of cuprospinel CuFe2O4: 4 Influence of the Jahn-Teller effect on the spinel structure 5 6 Atsushi Kyono1,*, Stephen A. Gramsch2, Yuki Nakamoto3, Masafumi Sakata3, 7 Masato Kato1, Tomoya Tamura1, and Takamitsu Yamanaka2 8 9 1Division of Earth Evolution Sciences, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, 10 University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8572, Japan 11 2Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road, N.W., 12 Washington DC, 20015-1305, USA 13 3Center for Science and Technology under Extreme Conditions, Osaka University, 14 Osaka 560-8531, Japan 15 16 17 18 19 Correspondence author: A. Kyono 20 Correspondence e-mail:
[email protected] 21 Phone: +81-29-853-7176, Fax: +81-29-853-7887 22 pg. 1 Revision 4 23 ABSTRACT 2+ 24 The Jahn-Teller effect at Cu in cuprospinel CuFe2O4 was investigated using high-pressure 25 single-crystal synchrotron X-ray diffraction techniques at beamline BL10A at the Photon Factory, 26 KEK, Japan. Six data sets were collected in the pressure range from ambient to 5.9 GPa at room 27 temperature. Structural refinements based on the data were performed at 0.0, 1.8, 2.7, and 4.6 GPa. 28 The unit cell volume of cuprospinel decreases continuously from 590.8(6) Å3 to 579.5(8) Å3 up to 3.8 29 GPa. Least-squares fitting to a third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state yields the zero-pressure 3 30 volume V0 = 590.7(1) Å and bulk modulus K0 = 188.1(4.4) GPa with K’ fixed at 4.0.