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Anomalous spin-waves and the commensurate-incommensurate magnetic phase transition in LiNiPO4
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- Detailed spin-wave spectra of magneto-electric LiNiPO4 have been measured by neutron scattering at low temperatures in the commensurate (C) antiferromagnetic (AF) phase with ordering temperature 20.8 K. An anomalous low-energy mode is observed at the modulation vector of the incommensurate (IC) AF phase appearing above the 20.8 K. A linear spin-wave model based on Heisenberg exchange couplings and single ion anisotropies accounts for all the observed spin-wave dispersions and intensities. Along the b axis an unusually strong next-nearest-neighbor AF coupling competes with the dominant nearest-neighbor AF exchange interaction and causes the IC structure.<br />Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.0902.2288
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.092413