Lattice and spin dynamics in a low-symmetry antiferromagnet NiWO${}_4$

Abstract

Lattice and magnetic dynamics of NiWO${}_4$ single crystals were studied with the use of polarized Raman spectroscopy in a wide temperature range of 10-300 K including the antiferromagnetic ordering temperature $T_N$=62 K. Static magnetic measurements were used for characterizing the single crystals. All Raman-active phonons predicted by the group theory were observed and characterized. Magnetic symmetry analysis was used to determine possible magnetic space groups for NiWO${}_4$ which can be also applied to any other isostructural crystal with the same magnetic propagation vector k=(1/2,0,0). Though the magnetic structure of NiWO${}_4$ is relatively simple, a rich set of narrow and broad magnetic excitations with different polarization properties and temperature behavior in the very broad frequency range of 10-200 cm${}^{-1}$ was observed, with some modes surviving at temperatures much higher than $T_N$ up to 220 K. Part of the magnetic excitations was identified as acoustic and optical spin-wave branches which allow us to construct exchange structure and estimate exchange and anisotropy constants with the use of linear spin-wave theory. Since the magnetic structure can be described as exchange-coupled AFM chains of $S=1$ ions, previously unobserved magnetic excitation at 24 cm${}^{-1}$ is tentatively assigned to a Haldane gap mode.

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