Antiferromagnetic Fractons in Percolating Magnets

Abstract

We report the observations of the dynamical structure factors S(q,ω) for antifferomagnetic fractons in diluted three-dimensional (3d) and two-dimensional (2d) Heisenberg systems, RbMn_0.4Mg_0.6F₃ and Rb₂Mn_0.598Mg_0.402F₄, with a magnetic concentration close to the percolation concentration, which were obtained by means of high-resolution (ΔE = 17.5 μeV) inelastic neutron scattering experiments. The peak intensity A(q) and the dispersion relation E(q) show the clear scaling laws following to A(q) ∝ q^−y with y = 2.9 ± 0.1 and E(q) ∝ q^z with z = 2.5 ± 0.1 for the 3d system, and y = 2.9 ± 0.2 and z = 1.8 ± 0.2 for the 2d system. The validity of the single-length-scaling postulate (SLSP) for S(q,ω) are demonstrated, for the first time. In addition, we show that the spectral dimension of antiferromagnetic fractons is unity independent of the embedding Euclidean dimension of the systems. These values are consistent with the theoretical predictions.