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Feb 26, 2018

Neutron scattering study of yttrium iron garnet

Physical Review B
  • Shin-Ichi Shamoto
  • Takashi U. Ito
  • Hiroaki Onishi
  • Hiroki Yamauchi
  • Yasuhiro Inamura
  • Masato Matsuura
  • Mitsuhiro Akatsu
  • Katsuaki Kodama
  • Akiko Nakao
  • Taketo Moyoshi
  • Koji Munakata
  • Takashi Ohhara
  • Mitsutaka Nakamura
  • Seiko Ohira-Kawamura
  • Yuichi Nemoto
  • Kaoru Shibata
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Volume
97
Number
5
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.97.054429
Publisher
American Physical Society

The nuclear and magnetic structure and full magnon dispersions of yttrium iron garnet Y3Fe5O12 have been studied using neutron scattering. The refined nuclear structure is distorted to a trigonal space group of R3̄. The highest-energy dispersion extends up to 86 meV. The observed dispersions are reproduced by a simple model with three nearest-neighbor-exchange integrals between 16a (octahedral) and 24d (tetrahedral) sites, Jaa, Jad, and Jdd, which are estimated to be 0.00±0.05, -2.90±0.07, and -0.35±0.08 meV, respectively. The lowest-energy dispersion below 14 meV exhibits a quadratic dispersion as expected from ferromagnetic magnons. The imaginary part of q-integrated dynamical spin susceptibility χ″(E) exhibits a square-root energy dependence at low energies. The magnon density of state is estimated from χ″(E) obtained on an absolute scale. The value is consistent with the single chirality mode for the magnon branch expected theoretically.

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  • DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.97.054429
  • ISSN : 2469-9969
  • ISSN : 2469-9950
  • eISSN : 2469-9969
  • SCOPUS ID : 85043778499
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000426041500005

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