Study of Magnetic Excitation in Singlet-Ground-State Magnets CsFeCl₃ and RbFeCl₃ by Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation

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The temperature dependences of spin-lattice relaxation time T₁ of ¹³³Cs in CsFeCl₃ and ⁸⁷Rb in RbFeCl₃ were measured in the temperature range between 1.5 K and 22 K, at various fields up to 7 T applied parallel (or perpendicular) to the c-axis, and the analysis was made on the basis of the dynamical correlated-effective-field approximation. The mechanism of the nuclear magnetic relaxation is interpreted in terms of the magnetic fluctuations which are characterized by the singlet ground state system. In the field region where the phase transition occurs, T₁^-1 exhibited the tendency of divergence near T_N, and this feature was ascribed to the transverse spin fluctuation associated with the mode softening at the K-point. It was found that the damping constant of the soft mode is remarkably affected by the occurrence of the magnetic ordering at lower temperature, and increases largely in the field region where the phase transition occurs.