Magnetic field dependence of antiferromagnetic resonance in NiO
Magnetic field dependence of antiferromagnetic resonance in NiO
Wang, Z.; Kovalev, S.; Awari, N.; Chen, M.; Germanskiy, S.; Green, B.; Deinert, J.-C.; Kampfrath, T.; Milano, J.; Gensch, M.
Abstract
We report on measurements of magnetic field and temperature dependence of antiferromagnetic resonances in the prototypical antiferromagnet NiO. The frequencies of the magnetic resonances in the vicinity of 1 THz have been determined in the time-domain via time-resolved Faraday measurements after selective excitation by narrow-band superradiant terahertz (THz) pulses at temperatures down to 3 K and in magnetic fields up to 10 T. The measurements reveal two antiferromagnetic resonance modes, which can be distinguished by their characteristic magnetic field dependencies. The nature of the two modes is discussed by comparison to an eight-sublattice antiferromagnetic model, which includes superexchange between the next-nearest-neighbor Ni spins, magnetic dipolar interactions, cubic magneto-crystalline anisotropy, and Zeeman interaction with the external magnetic field. Our study indicates that a two-sublattice model is insufficient for the description of spin dynamics in NiO, while the magnetic-dipolar interactions and magneto-crystalline anisotropy play important roles.
Keywords: NiO; terahertz spectroscopy; antiferromagnetic resonance; magnetic field
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Applied Physics Letters 112(2018), 252404
DOI: 10.1063/1.5031213
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