Spin dynamics and magnetoelectric coupling mechanism of Co4Nb2O9
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2018-02-28
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American Physical Society
Abstract
Neutron powder diffraction experiments reveal that Co4Nb2O9 forms a noncollinear in-plane magnetic structure with Co2+ moments lying in the ab plane. The spin-wave excitations of this magnet were measured by using inelastic neutron scattering and soundly simulated by a dynamic model involving nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor exchange interactions, in-plane anisotropy, and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. The in-plane magnetic structure of Co4Nb2O9 is attributed to the large in-plane anisotropy, while the noncollinearity of the spin configuration is attributed to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. The high magnetoelectric coupling effect of Co4Nb2O9 in fields can be explained by its special in-plane magnetic structure. ©2018 American Physical Society
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Antiferromagnetism, Magnetism, Phase transformations, Neutron diffraction, Spin waves, Inelastic scattering
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Deng, G., Cao, Y., Ren, W., Cao, S., Studer, A. J., Gauthier, N., Kenzelmann, M., Davidson, G., Rule, K. C., Gardner, J. S., Imperia, P., Ulrich, C., & McIntyre, G. J. (2018). Spin dynamics and magnetoelectric coupling mechanism of Co4Nb2O9. Physical Review B, 97(8), 085154. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.085154