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Possible Tomonaga-Luttinger spin liquid state in the spin-1/2 inequilateral diamond-chain compound K(3)Cu(3)AlO(2)(SO(4))(4)

K(3)Cu(3)AlO(2)(SO(4))(4) is a highly one-dimensional spin-1/2 inequilateral diamond-chain antiferromagnet. Spinon continuum and spin-singlet dimer excitations are observed in the inelastic neutron scattering spectra, which is in excellent agreement with a theoretical prediction: a dimer-monomer com...

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Autores principales: Fujihala, Masayoshi, Koorikawa, Hiroko, Mitsuda, Setsuo, Morita, Katsuhiro, Tohyama, Takami, Tomiyasu, Keisuke, Koda, Akihiro, Okabe, Hirotaka, Itoh, Shinichi, Yokoo, Tetsuya, Ibuka, Soshi, Tadokoro, Makoto, Itoh, Masaki, Sagayama, Hajime, Kumai, Reiji, Murakami, Youichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5711793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29196734
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-16935-9
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Sumario:K(3)Cu(3)AlO(2)(SO(4))(4) is a highly one-dimensional spin-1/2 inequilateral diamond-chain antiferromagnet. Spinon continuum and spin-singlet dimer excitations are observed in the inelastic neutron scattering spectra, which is in excellent agreement with a theoretical prediction: a dimer-monomer composite structure, where the dimer is caused by strong antiferromagnetic (AFM) coupling and the monomer forms an almost isolated quantum AFM chain controlling low-energy excitations. Moreover, muon spin rotation/relaxation spectroscopy shows no long-range ordering down to 90 mK, which is roughly three orders of magnitude lower than the exchange interaction of the quantum AFM chain. K(3)Cu(3)AlO(2)(SO(4))(4) is, thus, regarded as a compound that exhibits a Tomonaga-Luttinger spin liquid behavior at low temperatures close to the ground state.