Open AccessТерагерцовая спектроскопия магнитоэлектрика HoAl-=SUB=-3-=/SUB=-(BO-=SUB=-3-=/SUB=-)-=SUB=-4-=/SUB=-
Author(s) -
А.М. Кузьменко,
В.Ю. Иванов,
А.Ю. Тихановский,
A. Pimenov,
A. Shuvaev,
И.А. Гудим,
А.А. Мухин
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
optika i spektroskopiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-6694
pISSN - 0030-4034
DOI - 10.21883/os.2022.01.51890.33-21
Subject(s) - excited state , multiplet , atomic physics , ground state , spectral line , ion , excitation , crystal (programming language) , atomic electron transition , dipole , symmetry (geometry) , materials science , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , astronomy , computer science , programming language
Experimental and theoretical study of submillimeter (terahertz) spectroscopic and magnetic properties of the rare-earth aluminum borate HoAl3(BO3)4 were performed at temperatures 3–300 K. In the transmittance spectra a number of resonance lines were detected at frequencies 2–35 cm–1 for different radiation polarizations. These modes were identified as transitions between the lower levels of the ground multiplet of the Ho3+ ion split by the crystal field, including both transitions from the ground state to the excited ones and transitions between the excited states. The established excitation conditions of the observed modes and the simulation of the spectra made it possible to separate the magnetic and electric dipole transitions and to determine the energies of the corresponding states, their symmetry, and the matrix elements of the transitions. Low-frequency lines that do not fit into the established picture of the electron states of Ho3+ were also found; these lines, apparently, correspond to the ions with the distorted by defects local symmetry of the crystal field.