Elementary excitations in the cyclic molecular nanomagnet Cr8
arXiv:cond-mat/0310397 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.237202
Abstract
Combining recent and new inelastic neutron scattering data for the molecular cyclic cluster Cr8 produces a deep understanding of the low lying excitations in bipartite antiferromagnetic Heisenberg rings. The existence of the L-band, the lowest rotational band, and the E-band, essentially spin wave excitations, is confirmed spectroscopically. The different significance of these excitations and their physical nature is clearly established by high-energy and Q-dependence data.
4 pages, 4 figures, RevTex4, to appear in PRL