Ca 2Y 2Cu 5O 10: The first frustrated quasi-1d ferromagnet close to criticality

R. O. Kuzian, S. Nishimoto, S. L. Drechsler, J. Málek, S. Johnston, Jeroen Van Den Brink, M. Schmitt, H. Rosner, M. Matsuda, K. Oka, H. Yamaguchi, T. Ito

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Abstract

Ca 2Y 2Cu 5O 10 is built up from edge-shared CuO 4 plaquettes forming spin chains. From inelastic neutron scattering data we extract an in-chain nearest-neighbor exchange J 1-170K and the frustrating next-neighbor J 232K interactions, both significantly larger than previous estimates. The ratio α=|J 2/J 1|=0.19±0.01 places the system close to the critical point α c=0.25 of the J 1-J 2 chain but in the 1D ferromagnetic regime. We establish that the vicinity to criticality only marginally affects the dispersion and coherence of the spin-wave-like magnetic excitations but instead results in a dramatic T dependence of high-energy Zhang-Rice singlet excitation intensities.

Original languageEnglish
Article number117207
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume109
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 14 2012

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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science22560018

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