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BiFe0 $_3$螺旋磁体中电磁振子激发的观测

Observation of electromagnon excitations in the BiFe0$_3$ spiral magnet

M. Cazayous, Y. Gallais, A. Sacuto, R. De Sousa, D. Lebeugle, D. Colson

摘要:

近年来,氧化物多铁性材料由于其巨大的磁电效应而引起了人们的广泛关注,这种磁电效应可以通过调节电场来调节材料的磁性能,反之亦然,并且为未来的自旋电子学应用开辟了新的领域,如具有双重磁和电控制的多态存储器件。BiFeO $_3$(BFO)属于这类新材料,在室温下具有铁电和反铁磁有序,并且具有与摆线螺旋磁有序相关的大极化。无公度磁序诱导磁振子区折叠,并允许通过光学探针研究耦合到光学声子的不寻常的自旋波,即所谓的“电磁振子”。本文用低能非弹性光散射技术首次揭示了BFO的电磁子谱。我们表明存在两种对应于自旋波激发的电磁振子在摆线平面内外。目前的观察提供了一个独特的机会,研究铁电和磁秩序之间的相互作用。

英文摘要:

Recently, oxide multiferroics have attracted much attention due to their large magnetoelectric effect which allows the tuning of magnetic properties with electric field and vice versa and open new venues for future spintronic applications such as multiple-state memory devices with dual magnetic and electric control. BiFeO$_3$ (BFO) belongs to this new class of materials and shows both ferroelectric and antiferromagnetic orders at room temperature with a large electric polarizationassociated with a cycloidal spiral magnetic ordering. The incommensurate magnetic order induces magnon zone folding and allows investigations by optical probes of unusual spin waves which couples to optical phonons, the so called "`electromagnons"'. Here, we unravel for the first time the electromagnon spectra of BFO by means low energy inelastic light scattering technique. We show the existence of two species of electromagnons corresponding to spin wave excitations in and out of the cycloidal plane. The present observations present an unique opportunity to study the interplay between ferroelectric and magnetic orders.

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