Anisotropic magnon damping by zero-temperature quantum fluctuations in ferromagnetic CrGeTe3

Lebing Chen; Chengjie Mao; Jae-Ho Chung; Matthew B. Stone; Alexander I. Kolesnikov; Xiaoping Wang; Naoki Murai; Bin Gao; Olivier Delaire; Pengcheng Dai

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31612-w

Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Anisotropic magnon damping by zero-temperature quantum fluctuations in ferromagnetic CrGeTe3

Lebing Chen,
Chengjie Mao,
Jae-Ho Chung,
Matthew B. Stone,
Alexander I. Kolesnikov,
Xiaoping Wang,
Naoki Murai,
Bin Gao,
Olivier Delaire,
Pengcheng Dai

Affiliations

Lebing Chen: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University
Chengjie Mao: Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University
Jae-Ho Chung: Department of Physics, Korea University
Matthew B. Stone: Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Alexander I. Kolesnikov: Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Xiaoping Wang: Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Naoki Murai: J-PARC Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Bin Gao: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University
Olivier Delaire: Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University
Pengcheng Dai: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31612-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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CrGeTe3 is a van der Waals honeycomb ferromagnet, known for exhibiting strong coupling between lattice and spin degrees of freedom. Here, Chen et al perform neutron scattering on CrGeTe3, find a broadened spin-wave excitation resulting from zero-temperature motion of the atoms in the lattice.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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