Laura Chaix, Sophie De Brion, Florence Levy-Bertrand, Virginie Simonet, Rafik Ballou, Benjamin Canals, Pascal Lejay, Jean-Blaise Brubach, Gaëlle Greff, Fabrice Willaert, Pascale Roy, Andres Cano
We have determined the terahertz spectrum of the chiral langasite Ba$_3$NbFe$_3$Si$_2$O$_{14}$ by means of synchrotron-radiation measurements. Two excitations are revealed that are shown to have a different nature. The first one, purely magnetic, is observed at low temperature in the magnetically ordered phase and is assigned to a magnon. The second one persits far into the paramagnetic phase and exhibits both an electric and a magnetic activity at slightly different energies. This magnetoelectric excitation is interpreted in terms of atomic rotations and requires a helical electric polarization.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1706
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