Аннотация: We present detailed inelastic neutron scattering measurements of the noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn3Ge. Time-of-flight and triple-axis spectroscopy experiments were conducted at the temperature of 6 K, well below the high magnetic ordering temperature of 370 K. The magnetic excitations have a 5-meV gap and display an anisotropic dispersive mode reaching ~ 90 meV at the boundaries of the magnetic Brillouin zone. The spectrum at the zone center shows two additional excitations that demonstrate characteristics of both magnons and phonons. Ab initio lattice-dynamics calculations show that these can be associated with the magnon-polaron modes resulting from the hybridization of the spin fluctuations and the low-energy optical phonons. The observed magnetoelastic coupling agrees with the previously found negative thermal expansion in this compound and resembles the features reported in the spectroscopic studies of other antiferromagnets with similar noncollinear spin structures.
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Max Planck Inst Chem Phys Solids, D-01187 Dresden, Germany.
Tech Univ Dresden, Inst Festkorper & Mat Phys, D-01069 Dresden, Germany.
Russian Acad Sci, Siberian Branch, Kirensky Inst Phys, Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia.
Univ Paris Saclay, CEA Saclay, CNRS, Lab Leon Brillouin,CEA, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France.
Rutherford Appleton Lab, STFC, ISIS Facil, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England.
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Sukhanov, A. S.; Pavlovskii, M. S.; Павловский, Максим Сергеевич; Bourges, P.h.; Walker, H. C.; Manna, K.; Felser, C.; Inosov, D. S.; International Max Planck Research School for Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Materials (IMPRS-CPQM); German Research Foundation (DFG) through project B05 of the Collaborative Research Center [SFB 1143, 247310070]; German Research Foundation (DFG) through project C03 of the Collaborative Research Center [SFB 1143, 247310070]; German Research Foundation (DFG) through Wurzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat [EXC 2147, 39085490]; German Research Foundation (DFG) [SPP 2137]