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Aiming to shed light on the possible existence of hybrid phonon-magnon excitations in multiferroic manganites, neutron scattering measurements have been undertaken at LLB and ILL on the particular case of hexagonal YMnO3. Our experiments focused on a transverse acoustic phonon mode polarized along the ferroelectric axis. The neutron data show that below the magnetic transition, this particular phonon mode splits in two different branches. The upper branch is found to coincide with a spin wave mode. This manifestation of a strong spin-lattice coupling is discussed in terms of a possible hybridization between the two types of elementary excitations, the phonon and magnons.
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Petit, S., Pailhès, S., Fabrèges, X. et al. Spin lattice coupling in multiferroic hexagonal YMnO3 . Pramana - J Phys 71, 869–876 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-008-0277-8
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