Evolution of spin dynamics during freezing in the spin-glass FexCr1-x

In the iron-chromium system, FexCr1-x, a wide dome of spin-glass behavior emerges when the ferromagnetism of iron is suppressed and the antiferromagnetism of chromium emerges as a function of increasing iron content x . As both, the high-temperature state and the characteristic cluster size vary as a function of x , different regimes of spin-glass behavior may be compared in a single, isostructural material system. Here, we report a study of the spin dynamics across the freezing process into the spin-glass state for different iron concentrations (x = 0.145, 0.175, 0.21) using modulation of intensity with zero effort (MIEZE) spectroscopy. In the parameter range studied, the relaxation process observed experimentally may be described well in terms of a stretched exponential. In the reentrant cluster-glass regime, x = 0.145, this behavior persists up to high temperatures. In comparison, in the superparamagnetic regime, x = 0.175 and x = 0.21, a single relaxation time at elevated temperatures is observed. For all samples studied, the spin relaxation exhibits a momentum dependence consistent with a power law, providing evidence of a dispersive character of the spin relaxation.