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The concept of collective excitations is essential to the understanding of the optical spectra of magnetic insulators. In particular magnons and Frenkel excitons play a major role in the absorption structure near the electronic origin of d-d absorption in transition metal ion compounds or of f-f absorption of rare-earth materials. Both pure exciton and exciton-magnon transitions are observed below the magnetic ordering temperature. These provide information on exciton dispersion and on exciton-magnon interactions. Two principal examples are used to illustrate these concepts: the antiferromagnets MnF2 and Cr2O3.
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Macfarlane, R.M. (1997). Collective Excitations in the Optical Spectroscopy of Magnetic Insulators. In: Di Bartolo, B., Kyrkos, S. (eds) Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Collective Excitations in Solids. NATO ASI Series, vol 356. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5835-4_15
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