Possible Tomonaga-Luttinger spin liquid state in the spin-1/2 inequilateral diamond-chain compound K₃Cu₃AlO₂(SO₄)₄.

ABSTRACT: K₃Cu₃AlO₂(SO₄)₄ is a highly one-dimensional spin-1/2 inequilateral diamond-chain antiferromagnet. Spinon continuum and spin-singlet dimer excitations are observed in the inelastic neutron scattering spectra, which is in excellent agreement with a theoretical prediction: a dimer-monomer composite structure, where the dimer is caused by strong antiferromagnetic (AFM) coupling and the monomer forms an almost isolated quantum AFM chain controlling low-energy excitations. Moreover, muon spin rotation/relaxation spectroscopy shows no long-range ordering down to 90 mK, which is roughly three orders of magnitude lower than the exchange interaction of the quantum AFM chain. K₃Cu₃AlO₂(SO₄)₄

SUBMITTER: Fujihala M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5711793 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature