Spin dynamics of antiferromagnetically coupled ferromagnetic bilayers -- the case of Cr$_2$WO$_6$ and Cr$_2$MoO$_6$

Kingshuk Majumdar; Subhendra D. Mahanti

doi:10.1088/2053-1591/ab10eb

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Spin dynamics of antiferromagnetically coupled ferromagnetic bilayers -- the case of Cr $_{2}$ WO $_{6}$ and Cr $_{2}$ MoO $_{6}$

arXiv:1903.08512 · doi:10.1088/2053-1591/ab10eb

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Recent inelastic neutron diffraction measurements on Cr $_{2}$ (Te, W, Mo)O $_{6}$ have revealed that these systems consist of bilayers of spin-3/2 Cr $^{3 +}$ ions with strong antiferromagnetic inter-bilayer coupling and tuneable intra-bilayer coupling from ferro (for W and Mo) to antiferro (for Te). These measurements have determined the ground state spin structure and the values of sublattice magnetization, which shows significant reduction of sublattice magnetization from the atomic spin value of 3.0 $μ_{B}$ for Cr $^{3 +}$ atoms. In an earlier paper we theoretically investigated the low temperature spin dynamics of Cr $_{2}$ TeO $_{6}$ bilayer system where both the intra and inter-bilayer couplings are antiferromagnetic. In this paper we investigate Cr $_{2}$ WO $_{6}$ and Cr $_{2}$ MoO $_{6}$ systems where intra-bilayer exchange couplings are ferromagnetic but the inter-bilayer exchange couplings are antiferromagnetic. We obtain the magnon dispersion, sublattice magnetization, two-magnon density of states, longitudinal spin-spin correlation function, and its powder average and compare the results for these systems with results for Cr $_{2}$ TeO $_{6}$ .

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Spin dynamics of antiferromagnetically coupled ferromagnetic bilayers -- the case of Cr2​WO6​ and Cr2​MoO6​

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Spin dynamics of antiferromagnetically coupled ferromagnetic bilayers -- the case of Cr $_{2}$ WO $_{6}$ and Cr $_{2}$ MoO $_{6}$