A jump in the frequency of the quasiferromagnetic soft mode in Fe3BO6 at th
e point of the spontaneous orientational phase transitions Gamma(2)-Gamma(4
) is observed experimentally. It is shown theoretically that this jump can
be explained by the contribution of the dipole interaction to the expressio
n for the quasiferromagnetic soft mode. (C) 1999 American Institute of Phys
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