1981 Volume 50 Issue 5 Pages 1469-1478
Magnetic excitations in an antiferromagnetic mixture with competing spin anisotropies are studied by using a theory developed in I and II. Calculations are made of the dynamic susceptibility of K2FexMn1−xF4 and CoxFe1−xCl22H2O in which the oblique antiferromagnetic (OAF) phase is found in a limited range of x, and of CoxNi1−xCl26H2O in which the OAF phase is found in the entire range of x. It is shown that, in spite of the difference of the spin directions of two species of magnetic ions in the steady state, properties of spin waves in the OAF phase are very similar to those in an antiferromagnetic mixture in which constituent magnetic ions have a common easy axis. The energy gap is finite in the OAF phase as in the antiferromagnetic phase, and it vanishes at the phase boundary between the OAF and antiferromagnetic phases. The latter result may be used to determine the phase boundary. A comment is given on the TN−x curve of a mixture with competing spin anisotropies.
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