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Standing Spin Waves in an Antiferromagnetic Molecular Cr6 Horseshoe

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 Added by Stefan Ochsenbein
 Publication date 2007
  fields Physics
and research's language is English




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The antiferromagnetic molecular finite chain Cr6 was studied by inelastic neutron scattering. The observed magnetic excitations at 2.6 and 4.3 meV correspond, due to the open boundaries of a finite chain, to standing spin waves. The determined energy spectrum revealed an essentially classical spin structure. Hence, various spin-wave theories were investigated in order to assess their potential for describing the elementary excitations of finite spin systems.



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