Abstract
X-ray diffraction, Raman scattering, and M\ossbauer spectroscopy provide a diverse description of the high pressure behavior of berlinite-type ${\mathrm{FePO}}_{4}$. At a pressure of 2.5(5) GPa, a transformation to a coexisting new crystalline $(\mathrm{chp})$ and amorphous $(\mathrm{ahp})$ phase is observed with about equal abundance. The $\mathrm{chp}$ phase is identified as a ${\mathrm{VCrO}}_{4}$ type, where ${\mathrm{Fe}}^{\mathrm{III}}$ and ${\mathrm{P}}^{\mathrm{V}}$ ions, respectively, are sixfold and fourfold coordinated. In the 6--25 GPa range and after decompression, the relative abundance of the $\mathrm{chp}$ and $\mathrm{ahp}$ phases remains unchanged. These phenomena of concurrent amorphous and crystalline transformations at low hydrostatic pressure and stable abundance ratio over a large pressure range are unique in pressure-induced structural transformations of ${\mathrm{SiO}}_{2}$ analogs.
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