Field-controlled magnetic order in the quantum spin-ladder system (Hpip)2CuBr4

• Published in: Physical Review B, vol. 79, p. 020408
• Publication date: 2009

Neutron diffraction is used to investigate the field-induced, antiferromagnetically ordered state in the two-leg spin-ladder material (Hpip)(2)CuBr4. This "classical" phase, a consequence of weak interladder coupling, is nevertheless highly unconventional: its properties are influenced strongly by the spin Luttinger-liquid state of the ladder subunits. We determine directly the order parameter (transverse magnetization), the ordering temperature, the spin structure, and the critical exponents around the transition. We introduce a minimal microscopic model for the interladder coupling and calculate the quantum fluctuation corrections to the mean-field interaction.

Keywords: antiferromagnetic materials ; copper compounds ; critical exponents ; fluctuations ; Luttinger liquid ; magnetic moments ; magnetic structure ; magnetisation ; magnetocaloric effects ; Monte Carlo methods ; Neel temperature ; neutron diffraction ; organic compounds ; X-Y model ; Criticality ; Dynamics ; Chains

Reference

• LQM-ARTICLE-2009-001
• doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.79.020408
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