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四元反铁磁体Bi $_2$ CuO $_4$磁各向异性的中子散射研究

Neutron Scattering Study of Magnetic Anisotropy in a Tetragonal Antiferromagnet Bi$_2$CuO$_4$

Bo Yuan, Nicholas P. Butch, Guangyong Xu, Barry Winn, J. P. Clancy, Young-June Kim

摘要:

本文利用非弹性中子散射和自旋波分析对四元易平面反铁磁体Bi $_2$ CuO $_4$中的磁振子激发进行了全面的研究。低能磁振子的性质以及这种材料的各向异性一直存在争议。我们明确地表明,低能磁振子谱由带隙和无隙模式,我们归因于面外和面内自旋波动,分别。我们模拟所观察到的磁振子谱使用线性自旋波分析的最小各向异性自旋模型的晶格对称性的动机。通过研究(1,0,0)Bragg峰强度和面内磁振子强度的磁场依赖性,我们观察到在$\sim0.4$ ~T处$ab$面内自旋翻转跃迁,这直接表明存在经典禁止的小面内各向异性。只有在线性自旋波近似下考虑磁振子零点涨落,我们才能解释这种面内各向异性及其大小,而面内各向异性的大小是由自旋翻转跃迁的临界场推导出来的。所观察到的各向异性相互作用的微观起源进行了讨论。我们发现,我们的数据是不一致的一个大的Dzyaloshinskiii-Moriya相互作用,这表明一个潜在的偏离Bi $_2$ CuO $_4$从传统理论的磁各向异性的其他铜酸盐。

英文摘要:

We present a comprehensive study of magnon excitations in the tetragonal easy-plane anti-ferromagnet Bi$_2$CuO$_4$ using inelastic neutron scattering and spin wave analyses. The nature of low energy magnons, and hence the anisotropy in this material, has been controversial. We show unambiguously that the low energy magnon spectrum consists of a gapped and a gapless mode, which we attribute to out-of-plane and in-plane spin fluctuations, respectively. We modelled the observed magnon spectrum using linear spin wave analysis of a minimal anisotropic spin model motivated by the lattice symmetry. By studying the magnetic field dependence of the (1, 0, 0) Bragg peak intensity and the in-plane magnon intensity, we observed a spin-flop transition in the $ab$ plane at $\sim0.4$~T which directly indicates the existence of a small in-plane anisotropy that is classically forbidden. It is only by taking into account magnon zero-point fluctuations beyond the linear spin wave approximation, we could explain this in-plane anisotropy and its magnitude, the latter of which is deduced from critical field of the spin-flop transition. The microscopic origins of the observed anisotropic interactions are also discussed. We found that our data is inconsistent with a large Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, which suggests a potential departure of Bi$_2$CuO$_4$ from the conventional theories of magnetic anisotropy for other cuprates.

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