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Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 042404, 2015.
Tohru Suemoto, Keita Nakamura, Takayuki Kurihara, Hiroshi Watanabe
Laser and Synchrotron Research Center, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba 277-8581, Japan.
Abstract
The spin orientation during spin reorientation phase transition in a weak ferromagnetic orthoferrite DyxEr1−xFeO3 (x = 0.7) has been studied by using terahertz time domain spectroscopy under zero and weak external magnetic fields. The spin orientation angle was deduced from the ratio of the absorption intensity of quasi-ferromagnetic and quasi-antiferromagnetic modes, which appear around 0.25 and 0.4 THz, respectively. Between 11.4 and 17.9 K, this material showed a rotation-type reorientation transition rather than Morin-type transition. The temperature and magnetic field dependence of the orientation angle of the magnetic moment was found to follow a simple model assuming a linear temperature dependence of the anisotropy parameter. It has been also shown that this method is insensitive to the domain structure with opposite polarity and that it allows measurement without macroscopic magnetization.
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