Spin wave excitations in the 2D honeycomb ferromagnets

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Graphene is the single layer of honeycomb-shaped carbon network, for which 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded thanks to its novel electronic properties. One of such novelties is the particles carrying an electrical charge but zero mass. In this work, we are going to investigate the quantum particles carrying magnetic field but zero charges on magnetic materials that have similar structures as graphene, namely CrI3 and Cr2Ge2Te6. In them, magnetic moments of Cr3+ ions align on honeycomb-shaped lattices and produce these "magnons" via cooperative oscillations. We will use inelastic neutron scattering method to observe the energy of such magnons as a function of neutron momentum transfer. We will be then able to estimate the bonding strength between electronic magnetic moments by analyzing the spectra, which may eventually reveal the existence of such massless magnetic particles.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.98182388
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/98182388
Provenance
Creator Dr Helen Walker; Mr Lebing Chen; Professor Jae-Ho Chung; Mr Tong Chen; Dr Bin GAO; Professor Pengcheng Dai; Dr Russell Ewings
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-09-24T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-09-28T07:00:00Z