High-magnetic-field studies of the new spin-1 Haldane-chain material NENB

Antiferromagnetic quantum spin-1 chains have been the subject of intensive theoretical and
experimental studies, fostered especially by the Haldane conjecture (F.D.M. Haldane, Phys. Lett. 93A
(1983) 464). In this work we report results of high-magnetic-field studies of the new spin-1 chain
material NiC₂H₈N₂. The magnetic susceptibility, low-temperature magnetization
and high-field electron spin resonance (ESR) studies unambiguously indicate that NENB is a Haldanechain
material. Two critical fields were revealed by high-field (up to 15 T) magnetization
measurements indicating a field-induced collapse of the spin-singlet ground state and a finite
anisotropy of the g-factor in fields applied parallel and perpendicular to the chain direction. The spin
gap has been measured directly by means of the high-field ESR, revealing Δ = 17.4 K.