Microwave-induced excitations in the kagome system Pr sub(3)Ga sub(5)SiO sub(1 4)

Low-energy excitations in the rare earth kagome spin system Pr sub(3)Ga sub(5)SiO sub(1 4) (PGS) have been investigated using high-field electron spin resonance (ESR) techniques. Previous work has shown that PGS does not exhibit long-range magnetic order at temperatures down to 30 mK. The present lo...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics Condensed matter and materials physics, 2013-09, Vol.88 (9)
Hauptverfasser: Ghosh, Sanhita, Datta, Saiti, Zhou, Haidong, Hoch, Michael, Wiebe, Christopher R, Schlottmann, Pedro, Hill, Stephen
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Zusammenfassung:Low-energy excitations in the rare earth kagome spin system Pr sub(3)Ga sub(5)SiO sub(1 4) (PGS) have been investigated using high-field electron spin resonance (ESR) techniques. Previous work has shown that PGS does not exhibit long-range magnetic order at temperatures down to 30 mK. The present low-temperature (1.3-20 K) field-scan measurements, made on a single crystal sample in applied fields up to 30 T and for several microwave frequencies, give a series of temperature-dependent absorption peaks that are very different to conventional ESR spectra. The observed response is interpreted in terms of discrete spin-wave excitations in antiferromagnetically correlated spin clusters. We present a theoretical model which, in the limit of small magnetic frustration effects, qualitatively describes the microwave-induced transitions.
ISSN:1098-0121
1550-235X