Spin phonon coupling in frustrated magnet CdCr$_2$O$_4$

Details Spin phonon coupling in frustrated magnet CdCr$_2$O$_4$ Spin phonon coupling in frustrated magnet CdCr$_2$O$_4$

2007-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/0710.4154v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4.2 pages, 4 figures, 1 reference added, submmited

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.77.092412

The infrared phonon spectrum of the spinel CdCr2O4 is measured as a function temperature from 6 K to 300K. The triply degenerate Cr phonons soften in the paramagnetic phase as temperature is lowered below 100 K and then split into a singlet and doublet in the low T antiferromagnetic phase which is tetragonally distorted to relieve the geometric frustration in the pyrochlore lattice of Cr$^{3+}$ ions. The phonon splitting is inconsistent with the simple increase (decrease) in the force constants due to deceasing (increasing) bond lengths in the tetragonal phase. Rather they correspond to changes in the force constants due to the magnetic order in the antiferromagnetic state. The phonon splitting in this system is opposite of that observed earlier in ZnCr2O4 as predicted by theory. The magnitude of the splitting gives a measure of the spin phonon coupling strength which is smaller than in the case of ZnCr2O4.

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