Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study of the Spin Dynamics in the Breathing Pyrochlore System LiGa0.95In0.05Cr4O8

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العنوان: Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study of the Spin Dynamics in the Breathing Pyrochlore System LiGa0.95In0.05Cr4O8
المؤلفون: Tanaka, Yu, Wawrzyńczak, Rafał, Le, Manh Duc, Guidi, Tatiana, Okamoto, Yoshihiko, Yajima, Takeshi, Hiroi, Zenji, Takigawa, Masashi, Nilsen, Gøran J.
المصدر: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 87, 073710 (2018)
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
الوصف: The A-site ordered chromate spinels LiGa1-xInxCr4O8 host a network of size-alternating spin-3/2 Cr3+ tetrahedra known as a 'breathing' pyrochlore lattice. For the x=0.05 composition, the complex magneto-structural ordering observed in the parent x=0 material is replaced by a single transition at Tf=11 K, ascribed to the collinear nematic order caused by strong spin-lattice coupling. We present here an inelastic neutron scattering study of the spin dynamics in this composition. Above Tf , the dynamical scattering function S(Q,E) is ungapped and quasi-elastic, similar to undoped LiGaCr4O8. Below Tf , the spectral weight splits between a broad inelastic feature at 5.8 meV and toward the elastic line. The former feature can be ascribed to spin precessions within antiferromagnetic loops, lifted to finite energy by the effective biquadratic spin-lattice term in the spin Hamiltonian.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.7566/JPSJ.87.073710
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05064
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2301.05064
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv