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IOP Publishing, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 28(25), p. 286003

DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/25/28/286003

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Direct observation of low energy nuclear spin excitations in HoCrO3by high resolution neutron spectroscopy

Journal article published in 2013 by T. Chatterji, N. Jalarvo, C. M. N. Kumar ORCID, Y. Xiao, Th Brückel
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Abstract

We have investigated low energy nuclear spin excitations in the strongly correlated electron compound HoCrO3. We observe clear inelastic peaks at E = 22.18 ± 0.04 μeV in both energy loss and gain sides. The energy of the inelastic peaks remains constant in the temperature range 1.5-40 K at which they are observed. The intensity of the inelastic peak increases at first with increasing temperature and then decreases at higher temperatures. The temperature dependence of the energy and intensity of the inelastic peaks is very unusual compared to that observed in other Nd, Co, V and also simple Ho compounds. Huge quasielastic scattering appears at higher temperatures presumably due to the fluctuating electronic moments of the Ho ions that get increasingly disordered at higher temperatures. The strong quasielastic scattering may also originate in the first Ho crystal-field excitations at about 1.5 meV.