Critical slowing down of spin fluctuations in BiFeO3
- 30 September 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
- Vol. 20 (42)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/20/42/425223
Abstract
In earlier work we reported the discovery of phase transitions in BiFeO3 evidenced by divergences in the magnon light-scattering cross-sections at 140 and 201 K (Singh et al 2008 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 20 252203) and fitted these intensity data to critical exponents a = 0.06 and alpha ' = 0.10 (Scott et al 2008 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 20 322203), under the assumption that the transitions are strongly magnetoelastic (Redfern et al 2008 at press) and couple to strain divergences through the Pippard relationship (Pippard 1956 Phil. Mag. 1 473). In the present paper we extend those criticality studies to examine the magnon linewidths, which exhibit critical slowing down (and hence linewidth narrowing) of spin fluctuations. The linewidth data near the two transitions are qualitatively different and we cannot reliably extract a critical exponent., although the mean field value. = 1/2 gives a good fit near the lower transition.Keywords
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