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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 104, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.L020401
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-1720595]
- NSF [DMR-1729588, DMR-1949701]
- Cornell Center for Materials Research: an NSF MRSEC [DMR-1719875]
This study investigates the spin-phonon interaction mechanism in a YIG crystal through temperature-dependent and polarization-resolved Raman measurements. The researchers classified the phonon modes in the magnetite and quantified the spin-phonon interaction using a modified mean-field theory. The results show a positive correlation between the spin-phonon interaction strength and the phonon frequency in YIG.
Spin-phonon interaction is an important channel for spin and energy relaxation in magnetic insulators. Understanding this interaction is critical for developing magnetic insulator-based spintronic devices. Quantifying this interaction in yttrium iron garnet (YIG), one of the most extensively investigated magnetic insulators, remains challenging because of the large number of atoms in a unit cell. Here, we report temperature-dependent and polarization-resolved Raman measurements in a YIG bulk crystal. We first classify the phonon modes based on their symmetry. We then develop a modified mean-field theory and define a symmetry-adapted parameter to quantify spin-phonon interaction in a phonon-mode specific way in YIG. Based on this improved mean-field theory, we discover a positive correlation between the spin-phonon interaction strength and the phonon frequency.
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