Abstract
Neutron inelastic scattering techniques have been used to study Zn-substituted MnF2 crystals with average Zn concentrations c=0.22+or-0.02 and 0.7+or-0.1. For c=0.22 the results gave scattered distributions whose peaks were at frequencies less than those of the excitations of pure MnF2 and whose width was considerably larger than the experimental resolution. The other specimen had a concentration gradient such that one end of the crystal ordered magnetically at 4.2K whereas the other end did not. There were no significant differences between the scattering from the different ends, and it consisted of an overdamped distribution the width of which decreased as the wavevector of the excitation decreased.