Abstract
There has been a series of optical experiments recently in which one or two magnons are created in the vicinity of a Ni++ impurity in RbMnF3, KMnF3, and MnF2. The single-magnon excitations can be understood using existing Green's-function theory. We find that this theory; which uses the Holstein-Primakoff transformation, is adequate for the host (spin 52) but leads to certain difficulties at the impurity (spin 1), even in the present case where the impurity-host coupling is large. The line shape for the pair modes can be calculated when one of the two magnons is highly localized, thus allowing the three-body problem to be solved as an effective two-body problem. We show that if the lattice contains one magnon localized on the impurity itself, the impurity acts as though its spin were reduced from S′ to S′ - 1 (i.e., as a vacancy, in the case of Ni). Many of the experiments can be explained without a detailed knowledge of the Ni-Mn exchange, which is fortunate in the case of the rutile structure where it is probably complicated. We briefly discuss the g factors of the various modes and show that they can lead to useful information about the spatial extent of the excitations.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 2690-2702 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Physical Review B |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1970 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Theory of localized magnons in Ni++ - Doped manganese salts. / Thorpe, Michael.
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T1 - Theory of localized magnons in Ni++ - Doped manganese salts
AU - Thorpe, Michael
PY - 1970
Y1 - 1970
N2 - There has been a series of optical experiments recently in which one or two magnons are created in the vicinity of a Ni++ impurity in RbMnF3, KMnF3, and MnF2. The single-magnon excitations can be understood using existing Green's-function theory. We find that this theory; which uses the Holstein-Primakoff transformation, is adequate for the host (spin 52) but leads to certain difficulties at the impurity (spin 1), even in the present case where the impurity-host coupling is large. The line shape for the pair modes can be calculated when one of the two magnons is highly localized, thus allowing the three-body problem to be solved as an effective two-body problem. We show that if the lattice contains one magnon localized on the impurity itself, the impurity acts as though its spin were reduced from S′ to S′ - 1 (i.e., as a vacancy, in the case of Ni). Many of the experiments can be explained without a detailed knowledge of the Ni-Mn exchange, which is fortunate in the case of the rutile structure where it is probably complicated. We briefly discuss the g factors of the various modes and show that they can lead to useful information about the spatial extent of the excitations.
AB - There has been a series of optical experiments recently in which one or two magnons are created in the vicinity of a Ni++ impurity in RbMnF3, KMnF3, and MnF2. The single-magnon excitations can be understood using existing Green's-function theory. We find that this theory; which uses the Holstein-Primakoff transformation, is adequate for the host (spin 52) but leads to certain difficulties at the impurity (spin 1), even in the present case where the impurity-host coupling is large. The line shape for the pair modes can be calculated when one of the two magnons is highly localized, thus allowing the three-body problem to be solved as an effective two-body problem. We show that if the lattice contains one magnon localized on the impurity itself, the impurity acts as though its spin were reduced from S′ to S′ - 1 (i.e., as a vacancy, in the case of Ni). Many of the experiments can be explained without a detailed knowledge of the Ni-Mn exchange, which is fortunate in the case of the rutile structure where it is probably complicated. We briefly discuss the g factors of the various modes and show that they can lead to useful information about the spatial extent of the excitations.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.2.2690
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.2.2690
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VL - 2
SP - 2690
EP - 2702
JO - Physical Review B-Condensed Matter
JF - Physical Review B-Condensed Matter
SN - 0163-1829
IS - 7
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