Phase transitions in crystals lead to interesting physical phenomena. This work investigates two systems: First, the effects of the discontinuous orbital ordering transition on the phonon system of the spinel vanadate MgV
2O
4. Here, we observe a strong anomalous softening and damping of a transverse-acoustic phonon branch, which we attribute to anharmonic interactions between the phonons and the degenerate orbital electrons. Second, the change of the helimagnon dispersion in the chiral magnet MnSi across the continuous phase transition towards ferromagnetism, for which we observe strong damping effects.
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Phase transitions in crystals lead to interesting physical phenomena. This work investigates two systems: First, the effects of the discontinuous orbital ordering transition on the phonon system of the spinel vanadate MgV
2O
4. Here, we observe a strong anomalous softening and damping of a transverse-acoustic phonon branch, which we attribute to anharmonic interactions between the phonons and the degenerate orbital electrons. Second, the change of the helimagnon dispersion in the chiral magnet MnS...
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