Two-magnon scattering in the 5d all-in-All-out pyrochlore magnet Cd2Os2O7

  • Thi Minh Hien Nguyen
  • , Luke J. Sandilands
  • , C. H. Sohn
  • , C. H. Kim
  • , Aleksander L. Wysocki
  • , In Sang Yang
  • , S. J. Moon
  • , Jae Hyeon Ko
  • , J. Yamaura
  • , Z. Hiroi
  • , Tae Won Noh

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Abstract

5d pyrochlore oxides with all-in-All-out magnetic order are prime candidates for realizing strongly correlated, topological phases of matter. Despite significant effort, a full understanding of all-in-All-out magnetism remains elusive as the associated magnetic excitations have proven difficult to access with conventional techniques. Here we report a Raman spectroscopy study of spin dynamics in the all-in-All-out magnetic state of the 5d pyrochlore Cd2Os2O7. Through a comparison between the two-magnon scattering and spin-wave theory, we confirm the large single ion anisotropy in this material and show that the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and exchange interactions play a significant role in the spin-wave dispersions. The Raman data also reveal complex spin-charge-lattice coupling and indicate that the metal-insulator transition in Cd2Os2O7 is Lifshitz-type. Our work establishes Raman scattering as a simple and powerful method for exploring the spin dynamics in 5d pyrochlore magnets.

Original languageEnglish
Article number251
JournalNature Communications
Volume8
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2017

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