Felea V., Prodan L., Stefanet E., Cong P.T., Zherlitsyn S., Tsurkan V. «Ultrasound propagation in bond frustrated HgCr₂S₄ spinel in magnetic fields» Физика низких температур, 43, № 5, с. 702-706 (2017)

Ultrasound and magnetization studies of bond frustrated spinel HgCr₂S₄ are performed as a function of temperature in static magnetic fields. Beside the anharmonic effect, the sound velocity shows pronounced anomaly at the antiferromagnetic (AFM) transition at T_N=23 K with an additional significant increase of the order of 0.5% indicating a strong spin-lattice coupling. External magnetic fields enhance the ferromagnetic (FM) correlations and shift the anomalies to lower temperatures concomitantly with the reduction of the Neel temperature. The constructed H–T phase diagram beside the long-range AFM states reveals the state with induced FM order and regimes with short-range AFM and FM correlations as well.