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

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Contributors

  • M. Ozerov - , Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Radboud University Nijmegen (Author)
  • M. Maksymenko - , Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, NASU - Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science (Author)
  • J. Wosnitza - , Chair of Physics of High Magnetic Fields, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Author)
  • A. Honecker - , University of Göttingen, CY Cergy Paris Université (Author)
  • C. P. Landee - , Clark University (Author)
  • M. M. Turnbull - , Clark University (Author)
  • S. C. Furuya - , University of Geneva (Author)
  • T. Giamarchi - , University of Geneva (Author)
  • S. A. Zvyagin - , Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Author)

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

Original languageEnglish
Article number241113
JournalPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume92
Issue number24
Publication statusPublished - 16 Dec 2015
Peer-reviewedYes