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Submillimeter Wave ESR Study of Spin Gap Excitations in CuGeO3
Transitions between the ground singlet state to the excited triplet state has
been observed in CuGeO3 by means of submillimeter wave electron spin resonance.
The strong absorption intensity shows the break down of the selection rule. The
energy gap at zero field is evaluated to be 570 GHz(2.36 meV) and this value is
nearly identical to the gap at the zone center observed by inelastic neutron
scattering. The absorption intensity shows strong field orientation dependence
but shows no significant dependence on magnetic field intensity. These features
have been explained by considering the existence of Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya (DM)
antisymmetric exchange interaction. The doping effect on this singlet-triplet
excitation has been also studied. A drastic broadening of the absorption line
is observed by the doping of only 0.5 % of Si.Comment: 6 pages, 8figures submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Dynamics in the dimerised and high field incommensurate phase of CuGeO
Temperature (\ K) and magnetic field (\ T) dependent far
infrared absorption spectroscopy on the spin-Peierls coumpound CuGeO\ has
revealed several new absorption processes in both the dimerised and high field
phase of CuGeO. These results are discussed in terms of the modulation of
the CuGeO\ structure. At low fields this is the well known spin-Peierls
dimerisation. At high fields the data strongly suggests a field dependent
incommensurate modulation of the lattice as well as of the spin structure.Comment: 12 pages (revtex), 2 figures (eps), csh selfextracting .uu file, To
appear in PRB-Rapid Com
Far-Infrared Spectroscopy in Spin-Peierls Compound CuGeO_3 under High Magnetic Fields
Polarized far-infrared (FIR) spectroscopic measurements and FIR
magneto-optical studies were performed on the inorganic spin-Peierls compound
CuGeO_3. An absorption line, which was found at 98 cm in the dimerized
phase (D phase), was assigned to a folded phonon mode of B symmetry. The
splitting of the folded mode into two components in the incommensurate phase
(IC phase) has been observed for the first time. A new broad absorption
centered at 63 cm was observed only in the axis
polarization, which was assigned to a magnetic excitation from singlet ground
state to a continuum state.Comment: 9 pages multicolREVTeX, 10 figure
Spin-phonon coupled modes in the incommensurate phases of doped CuGeO
The doping effect of the folded phonon mode at 98 cm was investigated
on the Si-doped CuGeO by magneto-optical measurements in far-infrared (FIR)
region under high magnetic field. The folded phonon mode at 98 cm
appears not only in the dimerized (D) phase but also in the
dimerized-anitiferromagnetic (DAF) phase on the doped CuGeO. The splitting
was observed in the incommensurate (IC) phase and the antiferromagnetically
ordered incommensurate (IAF) phase above . The split-off branches exhibit
different field dependence from that of the pure CuGeO in the vicinity of
, and the discrepancy in the IAF phase is larger than that in the IC
phase. It is caused by the interaction between the solitons and the impurities.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, resubmitted to Phys. Rev.
Infrared signatures of the spin-Peierls transition in CuGeO3
We investigated the infrared reflectivity of several Mg- and Si-substituted
CuGeO3 single crystals. The temperature dependent b-axis and c-axis optical
response is reported. For T<Tsp we detected the activation of zone-boundary
phonons along the b axis of the crystal on the pure sample and for 1% Mg and
0.7% Si concentrations. From a detailed analysis of the phonon parameters the
redshift of the B2u mode at 48 cm^-1 is observed and discussed in relation to
the soft mode expected to drive the spin-Peierls phase transition in CuGeO3.
Moreover, the polarization dependence of a magnetic excitation measured in
transmission at 44 cm^-1 has been investigated.Comment: Revtex, 3 pages, 5 postscript pictures, submitted to PRB Rapid
Communication
Spin fluctuations in CuGeO probed by light scattering
We have measured temperature dependence of low-frequency Raman spectra in
CuGeO, and have observed the quasi-elastic scattering in the
polarization above the spin-Peierls transition temperature. We attribute it to
the fluctuations of energy density in the spin system. The magnetic specific
heat and an inverse of the magnetic correlation length can be derived from the
quasi-elastic scattering. The inverse of the magnetic correlation length is
proportional to at high temperatures. We compare the
specific heat with a competing- model. This model cannot explain
quantitatively both the specific heat and the magnetic susceptibility with the
same parameters. The origin of this discrepancy is discussed.Comment: 17 pages, REVTeX, 5 Postscript figures; in press in PR
Magnetic Excitations in quasi two-dimensional Spin-Peierls Systems
A study is presented of a two-dimensional frustrated and dimerized quantum
spin-system which models the effect of inter-chain coupling in a spin-Peierls
compound. Employing a bond-boson method to account for quantum disorder in the
ground state the elementary excitations are evaluated in terms of gapful
triplet modes. Results for the ground state energy and the spin gap are
discussed. The triplet dispersion is found to be in excellent agreement with
inelastic neutron scattering data in the dimerized phase of the spin-Peierls
compound CuGeO_3. Moreover, consistent with these neutron scattering
experiments, the low-temperature dynamic structure factor exhibits a
high-energy continuum split off from the elementary triplet mode.Comment: 8 pages, Revtex, 8 eps-figure
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