Magnetic Structure and Spin Waves in the Kagomé Jarosite compound $\mathbf{KF}{\mathbf{e}}_3(\mathbf{S}{\mathbf{O}}_4{)}_2(\mathbf{OH}{)}_6$

Abstract

We present a detailed study of the magnetic structure and spin waves in the Fe jarosite compound $\mathrm{KF}{\mathrm{e}}_3(\mathrm{S}{\mathrm{O}}_4{)}_2(\mathrm{OH}{)}_6$ for the most general Hamiltonian involving one- and two-spin interactions which are allowed by symmetry. We compare the calculated spin-wave spectrum with the recent neutron scattering data of Matan {\it et al.} for various model Hamiltonians which include, in addition to isotropic Heisenberg exchange interactions between nearest ($J_1$) and next-nearest ($J_2$) neighbors, single ion anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions. We concluded that DM interactions are the dominant anisotropic interaction, which not only fits all the splittings in the spin-wave spectrum but also reproduces the small canting of the spins out of the Kagomé plane. A brief discussion of how representation theory restricts the allowed magnetic structure is also given.

23 pages, 17 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B (March 2006)

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• Spin chirality on a two-dimensional frustrated lattice
• Spin waves in the Frustrated Kagome Lattice Antiferromagnet KFe3(OH)6(SO4)2

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