Spin relaxation in the amorphous spin glass Al2Mn3Si3O12

Neutron scattering measurements on the amorphous spin glass Al₂Mn₃Si₃O₁₂ have been made using the time-of-flight method. The scattering lawS(Q, ) reveals a quasielastic line with temperature andQ-dependent linewidth and an elastic line with constant intensity between 15 and 294K. The linewidth of the quasielastic scattering diminishes with decreasing temperature following an Arrhenius law at least down to 15K. Deviations from this exponential form are strictly correlated with an increase of the elastic intensity below 15K. We favour the opinion that this effect is caused by the instrumental resolution rather than by the onset of spin glass freezing.