Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2007-12-18
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037601 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.037601
Recently, oxide multiferroics have attracted much attention due to their large magnetoelectric effect which allows the tuning of magnetic properties with electric field and vice versa and open new venues for future spintronic applications such as multiple-state memory devices with dual magnetic and electric control. BiFeO$_3$ (BFO) belongs to this new class of materials and shows both ferroelectric and antiferromagnetic orders at room temperature with a large electric polarizationassociated with a cycloidal spiral magnetic ordering. The incommensurate magnetic order induces magnon zone folding and allows investigations by optical probes of unusual spin waves which couples to optical phonons, the so called "`electromagnons"'. Here, we unravel for the first time the electromagnon spectra of BFO by means low energy inelastic light scattering technique. We show the existence of two species of electromagnons corresponding to spin wave excitations in and out of the cycloidal plane. The present observations present an unique opportunity to study the interplay between ferroelectric and magnetic orders.
Cazayous M.
Colson Dorothee
Gallais Yann
Lebeugle Delphine
Sacuto A.
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