Chiral magnons in the metallic altermagnet CrSb

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CrSb has been identified as a prominent candidate for observing altermagnetic (AM) chiral-split magnon spectra. AMs are novel spintronic platforms due to their strong time reversal symmetry-breaking responses akin to ferromagnets and fully compensated magnetization typical of collinear antiferromagnets (AFMs). CrSb orders ferromagnetically (Tc=705 K) with the [001] planes coupled antiferromagnetically along the easy c-axis. ARPES measurements have revealed a spin-split band structure reaching up to 1eV, but evidence for the predicted spin-split chiral magnon spectra is lacking. Inelastic neutron scattering measurements resolved a gapped magnon dispersion (~10 meV) with a bandwidth of ~60meV. We propose a momentum and polarization-resolved RIXS experiment at the Cr L2,3 edge (~580 eV) to reveal the time-reversal symmetry-breaking nature of the low energy magnetic excitations in CrSb.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15151/ESRF-ES-2010927244
Metadata Access https://icatplus.esrf.fr/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatplus.esrf.fr:inv/2010927244
Provenance
Creator Liam SCHMIDT ORCID logo; Alberto DE LA TORRE ORCID logo; David ANDERSEN; Zubia HASAN; Marli DOS REIS CANTARINO ORCID logo
Publisher ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)
Publication Year 2028
Rights CC-BY-4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Resource Type Data from large facility measurement; Collection
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields