Field-driven closure of the Haldane gap in an ideal coordination polymer spin-chain

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Chains comprising integer spin magnetic moments exhibit the celebrated non-magnetic Haldane phase, which is very different relative to the half-integer spin equivalent. We have recently discovered and characterised a molecule-based magnet system which is an ideal example of a Haldane chain, NiI2(3,5-lut)4. Crucially, deviations from the idealised spin-one chain are exceedingly small in this compound. Zero-field Inelastic neutron scattering at ISIS was successfully used to study the magnetic excitations in this system at zero-field, including the presence of the famous Haldane gap, and these data form part of an upcoming publication. We now propose to extend this study to non-zero magnetic fields, in order to investigate the field-driven evolution of the excitation spectrum up to and beyond the field-induced quantum phase transition where the Haldane gap is closed.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1920088-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/107703350
Provenance
Creator Dr David Voneshen; Mr Sam Curley; Dr Paul Goddard; Professor Jamie Manson; Dr Matthew Coak; Dr Robert Williams; Dr Ross Stewart
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-10-18T07:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-10-22T09:46:29Z