High-field ESR in low-dimensional spin systems


High-field ESR in low-dimensional spin systems

Zvyagin, S.

Due to recent progress in theory and the growing number of physical realizations, low-dimensional quantum magnets continue to receive a considerable amount of attention. They serve as model systems for investigating numerous fascinating phenomena in materials with cooperative ground states, in particular, induced by high magnetic fields. In this presentation I will focus on high-frequency and high-field Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) studies of copper pyrimidine dinitrate (Cu-PM), a spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain system with alternating g-tensor and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in magnetic fields up to 63 T. Due to the alternations, this material exhibits a field-induced gap, observed by us directly. Signatures of three breather branches and a soliton are identified in magnetic fields up to 25 T. The experimental data are sufficiently detailed to make a very accurate comparison with predictions based on the quantum field sine-Gordon theory. We report also on a minimum of the gap in the vicinity of the saturation field Hsat = 48.5 T associated with a transition from the sine-Gordon region (with soliton-breather elementary excitations) to a spin-polarized state (with magnon excitations). This interpretation is fully confirmed by the quantitative agreement over the entire field range of the experimental data with the DMRG investigation of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain with a staggered transverse field.

  • Invited lecture (Conferences)
    International Conference "Resonances in Condensed Matter", 21.-25.06.2011, Kazan, Russia

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