Electron spin resonance modes in a strong-leg ladder in the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid phase

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Beitragende

  • M. Ozerov - , Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Radboud University Nijmegen (Autor:in)
  • M. Maksymenko - , Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, NASU - Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science (Autor:in)
  • J. Wosnitza - , Professur für Physik in hohen Magnetfeldern (gB/HZDR), Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Autor:in)
  • A. Honecker - , Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, CY Cergy Paris Université (Autor:in)
  • C. P. Landee - , Clark University (Autor:in)
  • M. M. Turnbull - , Clark University (Autor:in)
  • S. C. Furuya - , University of Geneva (Autor:in)
  • T. Giamarchi - , University of Geneva (Autor:in)
  • S. A. Zvyagin - , Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Autor:in)

Abstract

Magnetic excitations in the strong-leg quantum spin ladder compound (C7H10N)2CuBr4 (known as DIMPY) in the field-induced Tomonaga-Luttinger spin-liquid phase are studied by means of high-field electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy. The presence of a gapped ESR mode with unusual nonlinear frequency-field dependence is revealed experimentally. Using a combination of analytic and exact-diagonalization methods, we compute the dynamical structure factor and identify this mode with longitudinal excitations in the antisymmetric channel. We argue that these excitations constitute a fingerprint of the spin dynamics in a strong-leg spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic ladder and owe their ESR observability to the uniform Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer241113
FachzeitschriftPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Jahrgang92
Ausgabenummer24
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 16 Dez. 2015
Peer-Review-StatusJa