Observation of Antiferromagnetic Resonance in an Organic Superconductor
Author(s) -
J. B. Torrance,
H. J. Pedersen,
K. Bechgaard
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
physical review letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.688
H-Index - 673
eISSN - 1079-7114
pISSN - 0031-9007
DOI - 10.1103/physrevlett.49.881
Subject(s) - antiferromagnetism , condensed matter physics , superconductivity , organic superconductor , materials science , absorption (acoustics) , spin (aerodynamics) , spin wave , resonance (particle physics) , spin density wave , amplitude , physics , ferromagnetism , atomic physics , quantum mechanics , composite material , thermodynamics
Anomalous microwave absorption has been observed in the organic superconductor TMTSF/sub 2/AsF/sub 6/ (TMTSF: tetramethyltetraselenafulvalene) below its metal-nonmetal transition near 12 K. This absorption is unambiguously identified as antiferromagnetic resonance by the excellent agreement between a spin-wave calculation and the pronounced dependence on temperature and magnetic field orientation. This result dramatically confirms earlier indications of magnetic ordering or spin-density waves and, furthermore, indicates that the spin-density-wave amplitude is considerably larger than previous estimates of <1%.
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