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Fujihara, Masayoshi; Hagihara, Masato; Morita, Katsuhiro*; Murai, Naoki; Koda, Akihiro*; Okabe, Hirotaka*; Mitsuda, Setsuo*
Physical Review B, 107(5), p.054435_1 - 054435_8, 2023/02
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)The = 1/2 Heisenberg linear chain antiferromagnet is the simplest spin model; nevertheless it serves as a platform for various quantum many-body phenomena. Here, we report the magnetic behavior of a quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet KCuPO
H
O. A long-range commensurate antiferromagnetic order with ordered moment 0.31(1)
per spin occurs at
= 11.7(1) K. Above
, the inelastic neutron excitation is characterized by a two spinon continuum. The intrachain interaction
and interchain interaction
are estimated to be 172 K and 4.25(4) K, respectively; thus the ratio of the
/
= 0.0247(3). At lower energies, below
, a spin gap is observed in the dispersive excitations. These results are consistent with characteristics observed in weakly interacting
= 1/2 Heisenberg chain system.
Fujihara, Masayoshi; Jeschke, H. O.*; Morita, Katsuhiro*; Kuwai, Tomohiko*; Koda, Akihiro*; Okabe, Hirotaka*; Matsuo, Akira*; Kindo, Koichi*; Mitsuda, Setsuo*
Physical Review Materials (Internet), 6(11), p.114408_1 - 114408_8, 2022/11
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary) = 1/2 Heisenberg
-
chain antiferromagnets have been investigated extensively due to their exotic magnetic states. Here, we report the magnetic behavior of birchite Cd
Cu
(PO
)
SO
5H
O and its effective spin model. Experimental studies by magnetic susceptibility, magnetization, heat capacity, and
SR measurements indicate the absence of long-range order down to 0.4 K. Theoretical studies reveal that birchite is a model compound for the
-
antiferromagnetic chain: the intrachain interactions
and
are antiferromagnetic and their magnitude is about 100 times larger than the interchain interactions. The magnitude of
is two to three times larger than that of
, thus the spin gap is expected to be only a few percent of that of
. The temperature dependence of the specific heat shows a broad peak at about 1 K (
0.036
), which suggests the presence of a spin gap.
Fujihara, Masayoshi*; Morita, Katsuhiro*; Mole, R.*; Mitsuda, Setsuo*; Toyama, Takami*; Yano, Shinichiro*; Yu, D.*; Sota, Shigetoshi*; Kuwai, Tomohiko*; Koda, Akihiro*; et al.
Nature Communications (Internet), 11, p.3429_1 - 3429_7, 2020/07
Times Cited Count:25 Percentile:88.37(Multidisciplinary Sciences)Fujihara, Masayoshi; Morita, Katsuhiro*; Mitsuda, Setsuo*; Okabe, Hirotaka*; Koda, Akihiro*; Murai, Naoki; Hagihara, Masato
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