Quantum criticality in an organic magnet

M. B. Stone, C. Broholm, D. H. Reich, O. Tchernyshyov, P. Vorderwisch, N. Harrison

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Abstract

Exchange interactions between S=12 sites in piperazinium hexachlorodicuprate produce a frustrated bilayer magnet with a singlet ground state. We have determined the field-temperature phase diagram by high field magnetization and neutron scattering experiments. There are two quantum critical points: Hc1=7.5T separates a quantum paramagnet phase from a three dimensional, antiferromagnetically ordered state while Hc2=37T marks the onset of a fully polarized state. The ordered phase, which we describe as a magnon Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), is embedded in a quantum critical regime with short range correlations. A low temperature anomaly in the BEC phase boundary indicates that additional low energy features of the material become important near Hc1.

Original languageEnglish
Article number257203
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume96
Issue number25
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006

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