Temperature evolution of the magnetic excitations in charge ordered La5/3Sr1/3NiO4

Polarized- and unpolarized-neutron scattering was used to study the temperature evolution of the magnetic excitations of charge ordered La5/3Sr1/3NiO4. We studied two features in detail: (i) the resonance-like scattering at 27 meV in the quasi-two-dimensional magnetic excitations from the ordered Ni...

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Main Authors: Freeman, P, Boothroyd, A, Ewings, R, Huecker, M, Prabhakaran, D, Enderle, M, Tranquada, J
Format: Conference item
Published: 2008
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Summary:Polarized- and unpolarized-neutron scattering was used to study the temperature evolution of the magnetic excitations of charge ordered La5/3Sr1/3NiO4. We studied two features in detail: (i) the resonance-like scattering at 27 meV in the quasi-two-dimensional magnetic excitations from the ordered Ni2+ (S = 1) spins, and (ii) the diffuse scattering associated with quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnetic correlations along the stripes. Although both these features persist up to at least similar to 125 K, their temperature dependences are found to be quite different. We argue from the results that the resonance- like feature observed in La2-xSrxNiO4 (x similar to 1/3) is not caused by a coupling between the spin dynamics of the two magnetic sub-systems.