Electromagnon in the Z-type hexaferrite $({\mathrm{Ba}}_x{\mathrm{Sr}}_{1-x}{)}_3\mathrm{C}{\mathrm{o}}_2\mathrm{F}{\mathrm{e}}_{24}{\mathrm{O}}_{41}$

Abstract

We studied experimentally the high-temperature magnetoelectric $({\mathrm{Ba}}_x{\mathrm{Sr}}_{1-x}{)}_3\mathrm{C}{\mathrm{o}}_2\mathrm{F}{\mathrm{e}}_{24}{\mathrm{O}}_{41}$ prepared as ceramics (x = 0, 0.2) and a single crystal (x = 0.5) using inelastic neutron scattering, THz time-domain, Raman and far-infrared spectroscopies. The spectra, measured with varying temperature and magnetic field, reveal rich information about the collective spin and lattice excitations. In the ceramics, we observed an infrared-active magnon which is absent in $E^{\omega }\perp z$ polarized THz spectra of the crystal, and we assume that it is an electromagnon active in $E^{\omega }\Vert z$ polarized spectra. On heating from 7 to 250 K, the frequency of this electromagnon drops from 36 to 25 cm${}^{-1}$ and its damping gradually increases, so it becomes overdamped at room temperature. Applying external magnetic field has a similar effect on the damping and frequency of the electromagnon, and the mode is no more observable in the THz spectra above 2 T, as the transverse-conical magnetic structure transforms into a collinear one. Raman spectra reveal another spin excitation with a slightly different frequency and much higher damping. Upon applying magnetic field higher than 3 T, in the low-frequency part of the THz spectra, a narrow excitation appears whose frequency linearly increases with magnetic field. We interpret this feature as the ferromagnetic resonance.

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