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Electromagnons in the spin collinear state of a triangular lattice antiferromagnet
1Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
Abstract:
Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy was performed to directly probe the low-energy (1-5 meV) electrodynamics of triangular lattice antiferromagnets CuFe(1-x)Ga(x)O2 (x=0.00, 0.01, and 0.035). We discovered an electromagnon (electric-field-active magnon) excitation at 2.3 meV in the paraelectric ↑↑↓↓ collinear magnetic phase, while this electromagnon vanishes in the ferroelectric helimagnetic phase. Anticorrelation with noncollinear magnetism excludes the exchange-striction mechanism as the origin of dynamical magnetoelectric coupling, and hence evidences the observation of a spin-orbit coupling mediated electromagnon in the present compound.
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