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Anisotropy of the incommensurate fluctuations in Sr2RuO4: a study with polarized neutrons

M. Braden, P. Steffens, Y. Sidis, J. Kulda, S. Hayden, N. Kikugawa, Y. Maeno

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0307662

Abstract

The anisotropy of the magnetic incommensurate fluctuations in Sr2RuO4 has been studied by inelastic neutron scattering with polarized neutrons. We find a sizeable enhancement of the out of plane component by a factor of two for intermediate energy transfer which appears to decrease for higher energies. Our results qualitatively confirm calculations of the spin-orbit coupling, but the experimental anisotropy and its energy dependence are weaker than predicted.

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