Universal exchange-driven phonon splitting in antiferromagnets.
Universal exchange-driven phonon splitting in antiferromagnets.
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反铁磁体中普遍交换驱动的声子分裂
DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.108.177203
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
A. Loidl
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作者:
Ch. Kant;M. Schmidt;Zhe Wang;F. Mayr;V. Tsurkan;J. Deisenhofer;A. Loidl
We report a linear dependence of the phonon splittingon the nondominant exchange coupling constantin the antiferromagnetic transition-metal monoxides MnO, FeO, CoO, NiO, and in the frustrated antiferromagnetic oxide spinels,, and. It directly confirms <?format ?>the theoretical prediction of an exchange-induced splitting of the zone-center optical phonon for the monoxides and explains the magnitude and the change of sign of the phonon splitting on changing the sign of the nondominant exchange also in the frustrated oxide spinels. The experimentally found linear relationwith slopedescribes the splitting for both systems and agrees with the observations in the antiferromagnetsandwith perovskite structure and negligible <?format ?>next-nearest neighbor coupling. The common behavior found for very different classes of cubic antiferromagnets suggests a universal dependence of the exchange-induced phonon splitting at the antiferromagnetic transition on the nondominant exchange coupling.