Amplitude mode in the planar triangular antiferromagnet Na0.9MnO2

Dally, Rebecca L.; Zhao, Yang; Xu, Zhijun; Chisnell, Robin; Stone, Matthew B.; Lynn, Jeffrey W.; Balents, Leon; Wilson, Stephen D.

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04601-1

Title: Amplitude mode in the planar triangular antiferromagnet Na_0.9MnO₂

Journal Article · Tue Jun 05 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04601-1· OSTI ID:1474479

Dally, Rebecca L. ^[1];

^[2]; Xu, Zhijun ^[2]; Chisnell, Robin ^[3];

^[4]; Lynn, Jeffrey W. ^[3]; Balents, Leon ^[5]; Wilson, Stephen D. ^[6]

Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States). Materials Dept.; Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics
National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States). Center for Neutron Research; Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States). Center for Neutron Research
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Neutron Scattering Division
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States). Kavli Inst. for Theoretical Physics
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States). Materials Dept.

Amplitude modes arising from symmetry breaking in materials are of broad interest in condensed matter physics. These modes reflect an oscillation in the amplitude of a complex order parameter, yet are typically unstable and decay into oscillations of the order parameter’s phase. This renders stable amplitude modes rare, and exotic effects in quantum antiferromagnets have historically provided a realm for their detection. Here we report an alternate route to realizing amplitude modes in magnetic materials by demonstrating that an antiferromagnet on a two-dimensional anisotropic triangular lattice (α-Na0.9MnO2) exhibits a long-lived, coherent oscillation of its staggered magnetization field. Our results show that geometric frustration of Heisenberg spins with uniaxial single-ion anisotropy can renormalize the interactions of a dense two-dimensional network of moments into largely decoupled, one-dimensional chains that manifest a longitudinally polarized bound state. This bound state is driven by the Ising-like anisotropy inherent to the Mn3+ ions of this compound.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; SC0017752; FG02-08ER 46524

OSTI ID:: 1474479

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1594776

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723

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