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MnO Spin-Wave Dispersion Curves from Powder Diffraction Data

Other Condensed Matter 2015-06-25 v2

Abstract

We describe a model-independent approach for the extraction of spin-wave dispersion curves from neutron total scattering data. The method utilises a statistical analysis of real-space spin configurations to calculate spin-dynamical quantities. The RMCProfile implementation of the reverse Monte Carlo refinement process is used to generate a large ensemble of supercell spin configurations from powder diffraction data. Our analysis of these configurations gives spin-wave dispersion curves that agree well with those determined independently using neutron triple-axis spectroscopic techniques.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0601558,
  title  = {MnO Spin-Wave Dispersion Curves from Powder Diffraction Data},
  author = {Andrew L. Goodwin and Martin T. Dove and Matthew G. Tucker and David A. Keen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0601558},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure