Magnetic Excitations of a Model Quantum Spin Ladder

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(C5H12N)2CuBr4 is the best realisation found to date of an antiferromagnetic quantum spin ladder in the strong coupling limit. This system displays an extremely rich phase diagram as a function of applied magnetic field, with two quantum critical points, and six distinct phases including a spin Luttinger liquid, and a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of magnons. While many of its salient features have been elucidated in a series of experiments, important questions still remain to be addressed. Here we are applying for beam time to exploit the exceptional capabilities of LET to measure the magnetic excitations of the model spin ladder (C5H12N)2CuBr4. This will allow us to determine for the first time the mechanism of thermally induced triplet formation and the excitations in the high-energy sector above the first quantum critical point.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24090500
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24090500
Provenance
Creator Professor Des McMorrow; Professor Christian Ruegg; Dr Karl Kraemer; Professor Henrik Ronnow; Mr Matt Mena; Dr Simon Ward
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-06-03T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-06-14T07:45:30Z