Raman scattering study of vibrational and magnetic excitations in Sr${}_{2-x}$La${}_x$IrO${}_4$

Abstract

We have measured the doping and temperature dependence of lattice vibrations and magnetic excitations in the prototypical doped spin-orbit Mott insulator Sr${}_{2-x}$La${}_x$IrO${}_4$ (x=0, 0.015, and 0.10). Our findings show that the pseudospin-lattice coupling -- responsible for the renormalization of several low energy phonon modes -- is preserved even when long-range magnetic order is suppressed by doping. In our most highly doped sample, the single magnon (Gamma-point) excitation disappears while the two-magnon mode softens and becomes heavily damped. Doping induced electron-phonon coupling is also observed in a higher energy phonon mode. We observe two different electron-phonon interaction channels, which provide evidence of the coexistence of fluctuating magnetic moments and mobile carriers in doped iridates.

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