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Optical detection of 4-spin chiral interaction in a 2D honeycomb ferrimagnet

Materials Science 2025-05-06 v2

Abstract

Broken inversion symmetry of magnetic lattice is normally described by Lifshitz invariants in micromagnetic energy functional. Three exceptions are the lattices with Td_\textrm{d}, C3h_\textrm{3h} and D3h_\textrm{3h} point group symmetries. The inversion symmetry breaking of the corresponding magnets is described by more complex 4-spin chiral invariants that cannot be related to Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Experimental detection of 4-spin chiral interactions is an important task that has yet to be performed. We propose that the 4-spin chiral interaction can be probed by energy selective magnon relaxation in two-dimensional ferromagnet Fe3_{3}GeTe2_{2} that possess D3h_\textrm{3h} point group symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.2412.02284,
  title  = {Optical detection of 4-spin chiral interaction in a 2D honeycomb ferrimagnet},
  author = {Bektur Murzaliev and Mikhail Katsnelson and Mikhail Titov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.02284},
  year   = {2025}
}