Pseudo-goldstone magnons in the frustrated S=3/2 heisenberg helimagnet ZnCr2Se4 with a Pyrochlore Magnetic Sublattice
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TYMOSHENKO, Y. V., ONYKIIENKO, Y. A., MULLER, Thomas Dieter, THOMALE, Ronny, RACHEL, Stephan, CAMERON, Alistair S., PORTNICHENKO, P. Y., EFREMOV, Dmitry V., TSURKAN, Vladimir, ABERNATHY, Douglas L., OLLIVIER, Jacques, SCHNEIDEWIND, Astrid, PIOVANO, Andrea, FELEA, Viorel, LOIDL, Alois, INOSOV, Dmytro S.. Pseudo-goldstone magnons in the frustrated S=3/2 heisenberg helimagnet ZnCr2Se4 with a Pyrochlore Magnetic Sublattice. In: Physical Review X, 2017, vol. 7, p. 0. ISSN 2160-3308. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.7.041049
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Physical Review X
Volumul 7 / 2017 / ISSN 2160-3308

Pseudo-goldstone magnons in the frustrated S=3/2 heisenberg helimagnet ZnCr2Se4 with a Pyrochlore Magnetic Sublattice

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.7.041049

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Tymoshenko Y. V.1, Onykiienko Y. A.1, Muller Thomas Dieter2, Thomale Ronny2, Rachel Stephan134, Cameron Alistair S.1, Portnichenko P. Y.1, Efremov Dmitry V.5, Tsurkan Vladimir67, Abernathy Douglas L.8, Ollivier Jacques9, Schneidewind Astrid10, Piovano Andrea9, Felea Viorel7, Loidl Alois6, Inosov Dmytro S.1
 
1 Technische Universitat Dresden, Dresden,
2 Universität Würzburg,
3 Princeton University, Princeton,
4 University of Melbourne,
5 Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Mining and Technology,
6 University of Augsburg,
7 Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of Moldova,
8 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge,
9 Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble,
10 Outstation at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ)
 
 
Disponibil în IBN: 4 februarie 2018


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Low-energy spin excitations in any long-range ordered magnetic system in the absence of magneto-crystalline anisotropy are gapless Goldstone modes emanating from the ordering wave vectors. In helimagnets, these modes hybridize into the so-called helimagnon excitations. Here we employ neutron spectroscopy supported by theoretical calculations to investigate the magnetic excitation spectrum of the isotropic Heisenberg helimagnet ZnCr2Se4 with a cubic spinel structure, in which spin-3=2 magnetic Cr3+ ions are arranged in a geometrically frustrated pyrochlore sublattice. Apart from the conventional Goldstone mode emanating from the (00qh) ordering vector, low-energy magnetic excitations in the single-domain proper-screw spiral phase show soft helimagnon modes with a small energy gap of ∼0.17 meV, emerging from two orthogonal wave vectors (qh 00) and (0 qh 0) where no magnetic Bragg peaks are present. We term them pseudo-Goldstone magnons, as they appear gapless within linear spin-wave theory and only acquire a finite gap due to higher-order quantum-fluctuation corrections. Our results are likely universal for a broad class of symmetric helimagnets, opening up a new way of studying weak magnon-magnon interactions with accessible spectroscopic methods.

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Engineering controlled terms Gold, magnetism, Quantum electronics, Selenium compounds, Spectroscopic analysis, Spin waves, Zinc compounds Engineering uncontrolled terms Cubic spinel structure, Linear spin-wave theory, Low energy spin excitations, Magnetic excitation spectra, Magnetic excitations, Neutron spectroscopy, Spectroscopic method, Theoretical calculations Engineering main heading Chromium compounds