Magnetic correlations in ferromagnets undergoing spin reorientation transitions
Magnetic correlations in ferromagnets undergoing spin reorientation transitions
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经历自旋重定向转变的铁磁体中的磁关联
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1992
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A. D. Moral
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A. D. Moral
The longitudinal (parallel to the c axis) and transverse (to the c axis) spin correlation functions are calculated for ferromagnetic systems with crystalline axial symmetries, and undergoing spin reorientation (SR) transitions under the effects of competing crystal electric field (CEF) anisotropies of axial and planar character. The structure factor is a combination of a long-range ferromagnetic one, F( theta ) delta (k), with amplitude dependent on the SR angle theta , plus a finite contribution at finite wavevectors k. This small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) structure factor is contributed by a Lorentzian (L) term, due to the magnon scattering, plus a squared Lorentzian (L2) term produced by zero-point uniform quantum spin fluctuations. This SANS scattering in the canted magnetization phase is produced within the magnetic domain walls, and therefore has a correlation length of the order of the domain wall width. The prefactors of the L and L2 SANS factors are complex functions of the spin reorientation angle and of the CEF strength parameters and spin-wave stiffness constant. These results are briefly discussed in connection with recent SANS experiments performed in the tetragonal (ErxNd1-x)2Fe14B hard intermetallic pseudoternary compounds.