Magnetic Anisotropy and Phase Transitions in Co-Doped Yttrium Iron Garnet Films

Magnetic Anisotropy and Phase Transitions in Co-Doped Yttrium Iron Garnet Films

YIG:Co,Ca,Ge films grown on (001) plane substrate were investigated down to liquid helium temperatures using torque anisometry technique. Successively lowering temperature spin-reorientational transitions were observed between following easy magnetization axes (EMA) orientations: (i) at room temperature four EMA inclined to the film plane from [I 111 directions; (ii) two EMA near the [I101 and ...

Anisotropy of Ruthenium-substituted Yttrium-iron-garnet

Electron-phonon coupling in iron-doped yttrium aluminum garnet

The electron-phonon coupling in iron-doped yttrium aluminum garnet crystals is studied in the theoretical framework of linear and quadratic coupling. The line shift and line broadening of the zero phonon line of iron centers as a function of temperature between 10 and 150 K is qualitatively and quantitatively explained. The spectroscopic features of the line, deduced from the theory of lattice ...

Microscopic spin-wave theory for yttrium-iron garnet films

Motivated by recent experiments on thin films of the ferromagnetic insulator yttrium-iron garnet (YIG), we have developed an efficient microscopic approach to calculate the spin-wave spectra of these systems. We model the experimentally relevant magnon band of YIG using an effective quantum Heisenberg model on a cubic lattice with ferromagnetic nearest neighbour exchange and long-range dipole-d...

Phase Diagram for Magnon Condensate in Yttrium Iron Garnet Film

Recently, magnons, which are quasiparticles describing the collective motion of spins, were found to undergo Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) at room temperature in films of Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG). Unlike other quasiparticle BEC systems, this system has a spectrum with two degenerate minima, which makes it possible for the system to have two condensates in momentum space. Recent Brillouin Li...