Doubling of the sound frequency and acoustic detection in hematite
Ozhogin V.N., Lebedev A.Yu., Yakubovskii A.Yu.
The first of many possible manifestations of effective anharmonicity (of magnetoelastic origin) of the elastic subsystem of antiferromagnets-second-harmonic generation and acoustic detection of a modulated sound wave—have been observed for the first time in single-crystal hematite. In agreement with the predictions of the theory, both effects are large and depend strongly on the magnetic field.