117 research outputs found
Modes of magnetic resonance of S=1 dimer chain compound NTENP
The spin dynamics of a quasi one dimensional bond alternating spin-gap
antiferromagnet Ni(CHN)NO(ClO) (abbreviated as NTENP) is
studied by means of electron spin resonance (ESR) technique. Five modes of ESR
transitions are observed and identified: transitions between singlet ground
state and excited triplet states, three modes of transitions between spin
sublevels of collective triplet states and antiferromagnetic resonance
absorption in the field-induced antiferromagnetically ordered phase.
Singlet-triplet and intra-triplet modes demonstrate a doublet structure which
is due to two maxima in the density of magnon states in the low-frequency
range. A joint analysis of the observed spectra and other experimental results
allows to test the applicability of the fermionic and bosonic models. We
conclude that the fermionic approach is more appropriate for the particular
case of NTENP.Comment: 11 pages, 11 figures, published in Phys.Rev.
Field-controlled phase separation at the impurity-induced magnetic ordering in the spin-Peierls magnet CuGeO3
The fraction of the paramagnetic phase surviving at the impurity-induced
antiferromagnetic order transition of the doped spin-Peierls magnet
Cu(1-x)Mg(x)GeO3 (x < 5%) is found to increase with an external magnetic field.
This effect is qualitatively explained by the competition of Zeeman energy and
exchange interaction between local antiferromagnetic clustersComment: 4 pages 4 figure
Paramagnetic and antiferromagnetic resonances in the diamagnetically diluted Haldane magnet PbNi2V2O8
The impurity-induced antiferromagnetic ordering of the doped Haldane magnet
Pb(Ni{1-x}Mg{x})2V2O8 (0 < x <0.06) was studied by electron spin resonance
(ESR) on ceramic samples in the frequency range 9-110 GHz. Below the N\'{e}el
temperature a transformation of the ESR spectrum was found, indicating an
antiferromagnetic resonance mode of spin precession. The excitation gap of the
spin-wave spectrum increases with increasing Mg-concentration in the same
manner as the N\'{e}el temperature, reaching its maximum value of 80 GHz at x >
0.04. At small concentrations x < 0.02 the signals of antiferromagnetic
resonance were found to coexist with the signal of the paramagnetic resonance
indicating a microscopic separation of the magnetic phases.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure
Spin-resonance modes of the spin-gap magnet TlCuCl_3
Three kinds of magnetic resonance signals were detected in crystals of the
spin-gap magnet TlCuCl_3.
First, we have observed the microwave absorption due to the excitation of the
transitions between the singlet ground state and the excited triplet states.
This mode has the linear frequency-field dependence corresponding to the
previously known value of the zero-field spin-gap of 156 GHz and to the closing
of spin-gap at the magnetic field H_c of about 50 kOe.
Second, the thermally activated resonance absorption due to the transitions
between the spin sublevels of the triplet excitations was found. These
sublevels are split by the crystal field and external magnetic field.
Finally, we have observed antiferromagnetic resonance absorption in the
field-induced antiferromagnetic phase above the critical field H_c. This
resonance frequency is strongly anisotropic with respect to the direction of
the magnetic field.Comment: v.2: typo correction (one of the field directions was misprinted in
the v.1
Magnetic resonance study of the spin-reorientation transitions in the quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet BaCu2Si2O7
A quasi-one dimensional antiferromagnet with a strong reduction of the
ordered spin component, BaCu2Si2O7, is studied by the magnetic resonance
technique in a wide field and frequency range. Besides of conventional
spin-flop transition at the magnetic field parallel to the easy axis of spin
ordering, magnetic resonance spectra indicate additional spin-reorientation
transitions in all three principal orientations of magnetic field. At these
additional transitions the spins rotate in the plane perpendicular to the
magnetic field keeping the mutual arrangement of ordered spin components. The
observed magnetic resonance spectra and spin-reorientation phase transitions
are quantitatively described by a model including the anisotropy of transverse
susceptibility with respect to the order parameter orientation. The anisotropy
of the transverse susceptibility and the strong reduction of the anisotropy
energy due to the quantum spin fluctuations are proposed to be the reason of
the spin reorientations which are observed.Comment: RevTeX, 9 pages, 7 figure
Triplet spin resonance of the Haldane compound with interchain coupling
Spin resonance absorption of the triplet excitations is studied
experimentally in the Haldane magnet PbNi2V2O8. The spectrum has features of
spin S=1 resonance in a crystal field, with all three components, corresponding
to transitions between spin sublevels, being observable. The resonance field is
temperature dependent, indicating the renormalization of excitation spectrum in
interaction between the triplets. Magnetic resonance frequencies and critical
fields of the magnetization curve are consistent with a boson version of the
macroscopic field theory [Affleck 1992, Farutin & Marchenko 2007], implying the
field induced ordering at the critical field, while contradict the previously
used approach of noninteracting spin chains.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figure
Spin-Peierls instability in a quantum spin chain with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction
We analysed the ground state energy of some dimerized spin-1/2 transverse XX
and Heisenberg chains with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction to study the
influence of the latter interaction on the spin-Peierls instability. We found
that DM interaction may act either in favour of the dimerization or against it.
The actual result depends on the dependence of DM interaction on the distortion
amplitude in comparison with such dependence for the isotropic exchange
interaction.Comment: 12 pages, latex, 3 figure
ESR study of the single-ion anisotropy in the pyrochlore antiferromagnet Gd2Sn2O7
Single-ion anisotropy is of importance for the magnetic ordering of the
frustrated pyrochlore antiferromagnets Gd2Ti2O7 and Gd2Sn2O7. The anisotropy
parameters for the Gd2Sn2O7 were measured using the electron spin resonance
(ESR) technique. The anisotropy was found to be of the easy plane type, with
the main constant D=140mK. This value is 35% smaller than the value of the
corresponding anisotropy constant in the related compound Gd2Ti2O7.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Spin Dynamics of in the Field-Induced Ordered Phase
- (known as DTN) is a spin-1 material with a strong
single-ion anisotropy that is regarded as a new candidate for Bose-Einstein
condensation (BEC) of spin degrees of freedom. We present a systematic study of
the low-energy excitation spectrum of DTN in the field-induced magnetically
ordered phase by means of high-field electron spin resonance measurements at
temperatures down to 0.45 K. We argue that two gapped modes observed in the
experiment can be consistently interpreted within a four-sublattice
antiferromagnet model with a finite interaction between two tetragonal
subsystems and unbroken axial symmetry. The latter is crucial for the
interpretation of the field-induced ordering in DTN in terms of BEC.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
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