Asymmetric Spin-Wave Dispersion on Fe(110): Direct Evidence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction

作者:Zakeri Kh*; Zhang Y; Prokop J; Chuang T H; Sakr N; Tang W X; Kirschner J
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2010, 104(13): 137203.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.137203

摘要

The influence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction on the spin-wave dispersion in an Fe double layer grown on W(110) is measured for the first time. It is demonstrated that the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction breaks the degeneracy of spin waves and leads to an asymmetric spin-wave dispersion relation. An extended Heisenberg spin Hamiltonian is employed to obtain the longitudinal component of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya vectors from the experimentally measured energy asymmetry.

  • 出版日期2010-4-2