Magnetic Structure and Spin Waves in the Kagomé Jarosite Compound KFe3(SO4)2(OH)6

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We present a detailed study of the magnetic structure and spin waves in the Fe jarosite compound KFe3(SO4)2(OH)6 for the most general Hamiltonian involving one- and two-spin interactions which are allowed by symmetry. We compare the calculated spin-wave spectrum with the recent neutron scattering data of Matan et al. for various model Hamiltonians which include, in addition to isotropic Heisenberg exchange interactions between nearest (J1) and next-nearest (J2) neighbors, single-ion anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions. We concluded that DM interactions are the dominant anisotropic interaction, which not only fits all the splittings in the spin-wave spectrum but also reproduces the small canting of the spins out of the Kagomé plane. A brief discussion of how representation theory restricts the allowed magnetic structure is also given.

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2006-06-29
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Physical Review B
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At the time of publication, author Taner Yildirim was affiliated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Currently, he is a faculty member in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
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