Magnetic Excitations in the Spin-1 Anisotropic Heisenberg Antiferromagnetic Chain System NiCl₂-4SC(NH₂)₂

Electron spin resonance studies of magnetic excitations in NiCl₂-4SC(NH₂)₂ (DTN, a quantum S = 1 chain system with strong easy-pane anisotropy and a new candidate for the Bose-Einstein condensation of the spin degrees of freedom) in fields up to 25 T are presented. Based on analysis of the frequency-field dependence of single-magnon mode in the high- field spin-polarized phase and previous experimental results [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 07724 (2006)], a revised set of spin- Hamiltonian parameters is obtained. Our results yield D = 8.9 K, J_c = 2.2 K, and J_a,b = 0.18 K for the anisotropy, intra- and inter-chain exchange interactions, respectively. These values are used to calculate the AFMphase boundary, low- temperature magnetization and the frequency-field dependence of two-magnon bound-state excitations predicted by theory and observed in DTN for the first time. Excellent quantitative agreement with experimental data is obtained.