Far-infrared absorption of Fe1-cMgcCl2

Abstract
Using far-infrared absorption spectroscopy, the variation of the frequency of the zone-centre magnon in Fe1-cMgcCl2 has been measured for the complete range of c. The magnon intensity does not vanish at the percolation limit. Instead it gradually becomes an electronic transition of Fe2+ in MgCl2 as c approaches 1. A mean-field model describes the frequency variation of the absorption quite well, but no simple model gives a satisfactory description of the lineshape. The measurements provide evidence for the existence of a local magnetic mode predicted by an ATA calculation for c=0.1.

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