ISSN:
1432-0630
Keywords:
76.50+g
;
78.30 Ly
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
,
Physics
Notes:
Abstract Brillouin scattering from thermally excited magnons and ferromagnetic resonance are used to determine the spin wave dispersion of the low-frequency spin wave branch in FeBO3, a transparent weak ferromagnet. In addition to the dominant exchange and Zeeman contributions, the investigation takes into account magnetic dipole and magnetoelastic interactions. Due to the antisymmetric exchange enhancement the material exhibits a broad spin wave band and a large gap energy at small magnetic fields. Competing directional dependences of the dipole and the exchange energy produce a degeneracy of spin waves with a certain magnitude of the wavevector propagating in different directions. The gap energy is shown to be due to magnetoelastic coupling, whereas the contribution of the anisotropy in the easy plane is negligible atT=300 K.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00886159
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