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Magnetic ground state and magnon-phonon interaction in multiferroic h-YMnO$_3$

Authors :
Uwe Stuhr
Mads F. Bertelsen
Ch. Niedermayer
U. B. Hansen
Andreas Kreisel
Z. Yamani
Pascale P. Deen
Maria Retuerto
A. Bakke
T. K. Schäffer
Kim Lefmann
A. Fennell
Dharmalingam Prabhakaran
Jacob Larsen
Brian M. Andersen
S. L. Holm
J. O. Birk
Source :
Holm, S L, Kreisel, A, Schaeffer, T K, Bakke, A, Bertelsen, M, Hansen, U B, Retuerto, M, Larsen, J, Prabhakaran, D, Deen, P P, Yamani, Z, Birk, J O, Stuhr, U, Niedermayer, C, Fennell, A L, Andersen, B M & Lefmann, K 2018, ' Magnetic ground state and magnon-phonon interaction in multiferroic h-YMnO 3 ', Physical Review B, vol. 97, no. 13, 134304 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.134304
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
arXiv, 2017.

Abstract

Inelastic neutron scattering has been used to study the magneto-elastic excitations in the multiferroic manganite hexagonal YMnO$_3$. An avoided crossing is found between magnon and phonon modes close to the Brillouin zone boundary in the $(a,b)$-plane. Neutron polarization analysis reveals that this mode has mixed magnon-phonon character. An external magnetic field along the $c$-axis is observed to cause a linear field-induced splitting of one of the spin wave branches. A theoretical description is performed, using a Heisenberg model of localized spins, acoustic phonon modes and a magneto-elastic coupling via the single-ion magnetostriction. The model quantitatively reproduces the dispersion and intensities of all modes in the full Brillouin zone, describes the observed magnon-phonon hybridized modes, and quantifies the magneto-elastic coupling. The combined information, including the field-induced magnon splitting, allows us to exclude several of the earlier proposed models and point to the correct magnetic ground state symmetry, and provides an effective dynamic model relevant for the multiferroic hexagonal manganites.<br />Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures

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Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Holm, S L, Kreisel, A, Schaeffer, T K, Bakke, A, Bertelsen, M, Hansen, U B, Retuerto, M, Larsen, J, Prabhakaran, D, Deen, P P, Yamani, Z, Birk, J O, Stuhr, U, Niedermayer, C, Fennell, A L, Andersen, B M & Lefmann, K 2018, ' Magnetic ground state and magnon-phonon interaction in multiferroic h-YMnO 3 ', Physical Review B, vol. 97, no. 13, 134304 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.134304
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....d1dbc31657b958833927fd0eab5961a8
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1707.02468