Related Experiment Video
Updated: Dec 22, 2025

High Resolution Phonon-assisted Quasi-resonance Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Published on: June 28, 2016
Single-ion anisotropy driven splitting of spin wave resonances in BiFeO3at low temperature
B K Das1, T N Sairam1, B Ramachandran2
1Materials Science Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research & HBNI, Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, 603102, India.
None:
The spin wave resonances of BiFeO3ceramics have been followed at low temperature through far-infrared reflectance measurements. Following the scheme of Fishmanet al(2015Phys. Rev.B92094422) we have been able to assign all the spin wave modes observed. A complete lifting of the degeneracies of all these modes is seen at 250 K concomitant with the increase in single-ion anisotropy. For the first time, all the spin wave modes have been observed in the infrared spectra of BiFeO3. Correlated changes in the strength and frequencies of spin wave excitations with the reported magnetic transitions at low temperature are observed. A simultaneous increase in anharmonicity of the magnetic cycloid and single-ion anisotropy with decreasing temperature results in a partial suppression of the spin wave excitations. An increase in the magnetoelectric coupling is also observed below 150 K.
Related Concept Videos
Atomic Nuclei: Nuclear Spin State Population Distribution
Atomic Nuclei: Nuclear Spin State Overview
Valence Bond Theory
Atomic Nuclei: Nuclear Relaxation Processes
¹H NMR: Complex Splitting
Splitting diagrams or splitting tree diagrams are routinely used to depict such complex couplings. While drawing splitting diagrams, the splitting with the larger coupling constant is usually applied...
¹H NMR Signal Multiplicity: Splitting Patterns

