Optical coupling to spin waves in the cycloidal multiferroic BiFeO3

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作者
de Sousa, Rogerio [1 ]
Moore, Joel E. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Div Mat Sci, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2008年 / 77卷 / 01期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1103/PhysRevB.77.012406
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T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
The magnon and optical phonon spectrum of an incommensurate multiferroic such as BiFeO(3) is considered in the framework of a phenomenological Landau theory. The resulting spin wave spectrum is quite distinct from commensurate substances due to soft mode anisotropy and magnon zone folding. The former allows electrical control of spin wave propagation via reorientation of the spontaneous ferroelectric moment. The latter gives rise to multiple magnetodielectric resonances due to the coupling of optical phonons at zero wave vector to magnons at integer multiples of the cycloid wave vector. These results show that the optical response of a multiferroic reveals much more about its magnetic excitations than previously anticipated on the basis of simpler models.
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