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Magnetic exchange parameters and anisotropy of the quasi-two-dimensional antiferromagnet NiPS3

Abstract

Neutron inelastic scattering has been used to measure the magnetic excitations in powdered NiPS3, a quasitwo-dimensional antiferromagnet with spin S = 1 on a honeycomb lattice. The spectra show clear, dispersive magnons with a similar to 7 meV gap at the Brillouin zone center. The data were fitted using a Heisenberg Hamiltonian with a single-ion anisotropy assuming no magnetic exchange between the honeycomb planes. Magnetic exchange interactions up to the third intraplanar nearest neighbor were required. The fits show robustly that NiPS 3 has an easy-axis anisotropy with Delta = 0.3 meV and that the third nearest neighbor has a strong antiferromagnetic exchange of J(3) = -6.90 meV. The data can be fitted reasonably well with either J(1) < 0 or J(1) > 0, however, the best quantitative agreement with high-resolution data indicates that the nearest-neighbor interaction is ferromagnetic with J(1) = 1.9 meV and that the second nearest-neighbor exchange is small and antiferromagnetic with J(2) = -0.1 meV. The dispersion has a minimum in the Brillouin zone corner that is slightly larger than that at the Brillouin zone center, indicating that the magnetic structure of NiPS3 is close to being unstable.

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