  Neutron scattering experiments were performed to investigate magnetic order
and magnetic excitations in ternary iron chalcogenide K2Fe4Se5. The formation
of a superlattice structure below 580 K together with the decoupling between
the Fe-vacancy order-disorder transition and the antiferromagnetic order
transition appears to be a common feature in the A2Fe4Se5 family. The study of
spin dynamics of K2Fe4Se5 reveals two distinct energy gaps at the magnetic
Brillouin zone center, which indicates the presence of magnetic anisotropy and
the decrease of local symmetry due to electronic and orbital anisotropy. The
low-energy spin wave excitations of K2Fe4Se5 can be properly described by
linear spin wave theory within a Heisenberg model. Compared to iron pnictides,
K2Fe4Se5 exhibits a more two-dimensional magnetism as characterized by large
differences not only between out-of-plane and in-plane spin wave velocities,
but also between out-of-plane and in-plane exchange interactions.
