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Title: Spontaneous decays of magneto-elastic excitations in non-collinear antiferromagnet (Y,Lu)MnO3

Abstract

When magnons and phonons, the fundamental quasiparticles of the solid, are coupled to one another, they form a new hybrid quasi-particle, leading to novel phenomena and interesting applications. Despite its wide-ranging importance, however, detailed experimental studies on the underlying Hamiltonian is rare for actual materials. Moreover, the anharmonicity of such magnetoelastic excitations remains largely unexplored although it is essential for a proper understanding of their diverse thermodynamic behaviour as well as intrinsic zero-temperature decay. Here we show that in noncollinear antiferromagnets, a strong magnon-phonon coupling can significantly enhance the anharmonicity, resulting in the creation of magnetoelastic excitations and their spontaneous decay. By measuring the spin waves over the full Brillouin zone and carrying out anharmonic spin wave calculations using a Hamiltonian with an explicit magnon-phonon coupling, we have identified a hybrid magnetoelastic mode in (Y,Lu)MnO3 and quantified its decay rate and the exchange-striction coupling term required to produce it. Our work has wide implications for understanding of the spin-phonon coupling and the resulting excitations of the broad classes of noncollinear magnets.

Authors:
 [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [6];  [7];  [8];  [1]
  1. Institute of Basic Science, Seoul (Korea); Seoul National Univ., Seoul (Korea)
  2. STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot (United Kingdom)
  3. STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot (United Kingdom); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  4. Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Ibaraki (Japan)
  5. Chalk River Lab., Chalk River, ON (Canada)
  6. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki (Japan)
  7. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
  8. Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
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Research Org.:
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States); Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
OSTI Identifier:
1361413
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1784342
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-04ER46174; FG02-07ER46382
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; condensed-matter physics; ferroelectrics and multiferroics; magnetic properties and materials

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Oh, Joosung, Le, Manh Duc, Nahm, Ho -Hyun, Sim, Hasung, Jeong, Jaehong, Perring, T. G., Woo, Hyungje, Nakajima, Kenji, Ohira-Kawamura, Seiko, Yamani, Zahra, Yoshida, Y., Eisaki, H., Cheong, S. -W., Chernyshev, A. L., and Park, Je -Geun. Spontaneous decays of magneto-elastic excitations in non-collinear antiferromagnet (Y,Lu)MnO3. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms13146.
Oh, Joosung, Le, Manh Duc, Nahm, Ho -Hyun, Sim, Hasung, Jeong, Jaehong, Perring, T. G., Woo, Hyungje, Nakajima, Kenji, Ohira-Kawamura, Seiko, Yamani, Zahra, Yoshida, Y., Eisaki, H., Cheong, S. -W., Chernyshev, A. L., & Park, Je -Geun. Spontaneous decays of magneto-elastic excitations in non-collinear antiferromagnet (Y,Lu)MnO3. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13146
Oh, Joosung, Le, Manh Duc, Nahm, Ho -Hyun, Sim, Hasung, Jeong, Jaehong, Perring, T. G., Woo, Hyungje, Nakajima, Kenji, Ohira-Kawamura, Seiko, Yamani, Zahra, Yoshida, Y., Eisaki, H., Cheong, S. -W., Chernyshev, A. L., and Park, Je -Geun. Wed . "Spontaneous decays of magneto-elastic excitations in non-collinear antiferromagnet (Y,Lu)MnO3". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13146. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1361413.
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title = {Spontaneous decays of magneto-elastic excitations in non-collinear antiferromagnet (Y,Lu)MnO3},
author = {Oh, Joosung and Le, Manh Duc and Nahm, Ho -Hyun and Sim, Hasung and Jeong, Jaehong and Perring, T. G. and Woo, Hyungje and Nakajima, Kenji and Ohira-Kawamura, Seiko and Yamani, Zahra and Yoshida, Y. and Eisaki, H. and Cheong, S. -W. and Chernyshev, A. L. and Park, Je -Geun},
abstractNote = {When magnons and phonons, the fundamental quasiparticles of the solid, are coupled to one another, they form a new hybrid quasi-particle, leading to novel phenomena and interesting applications. Despite its wide-ranging importance, however, detailed experimental studies on the underlying Hamiltonian is rare for actual materials. Moreover, the anharmonicity of such magnetoelastic excitations remains largely unexplored although it is essential for a proper understanding of their diverse thermodynamic behaviour as well as intrinsic zero-temperature decay. Here we show that in noncollinear antiferromagnets, a strong magnon-phonon coupling can significantly enhance the anharmonicity, resulting in the creation of magnetoelastic excitations and their spontaneous decay. By measuring the spin waves over the full Brillouin zone and carrying out anharmonic spin wave calculations using a Hamiltonian with an explicit magnon-phonon coupling, we have identified a hybrid magnetoelastic mode in (Y,Lu)MnO3 and quantified its decay rate and the exchange-striction coupling term required to produce it. Our work has wide implications for understanding of the spin-phonon coupling and the resulting excitations of the broad classes of noncollinear magnets.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms13146},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = ,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Wed Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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