Friday, January 4, 2013

1301.0327 (K. W. Plumb et al.)

Spin-orbital locked magnetic excitations in a half-metallic double
perovskite Ba2FeReO6
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K. W. Plumb, A. M. Cook, J. P. Clancy, A. I. Kolesnikov, B. C. Jeon, T. W. Noh, A. Paramekanti, Young-June Kim
We present a powder inelastic neutron scattering study of magnetic excitations in Ba$_2$FeReO$_6$, a member of the double perovskite family of materials which exhibit half-metallic behavior and high Curie temperatures. We find clear evidence of two well-defined dispersing magnetic modes in its low temperature ferrimagnetic state. We develop a local moment model, which incorporates the interaction of Fe spins with spin-orbit locked magnetic moments on Re, and show that this captures our experimental observations. Our study further opens up double perovskites as model systems to explore the interplay of strong correlations and spin-orbit coupling in 5d transition metal oxides.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0327

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