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Field-Induced Quantum Soliton Lattice in a Frustrated Two-Leg Spin-1/2 Ladder

Casola, F.
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Shiroka, T.
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Feiguin, A.
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2013
Physical Review Letters

Based on high-field 31P nuclear magnetic resonance experiments and accompanying numerical calculations, it is argued that in the frustrated S=1/2 ladder compound BiCu2PO6 a field-induced soliton lattice develops above a critical field of μ0Hc1=20.96(7) T. Solitons result from the fractionalization of the S=1, bosonlike triplet excitations, which in other quantum antiferromagnets are commonly known to experience Bose-Einstein condensation or to crystallize in a superstructure. Unlike in spin-Peierls systems, these field-induced quantum domain walls do not arise from a state with broken translational symmetry and are triggered exclusively by magnetic frustration. Our model predicts yet another second-order phase transition at Hc2>Hc1, driven by soliton-soliton interactions, most likely corresponding to the one observed in recent magnetocaloric and other bulk measurements.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.187201
Web of Science ID

WOS:000319015600012

Author(s)
Casola, F.
Shiroka, T.
Feiguin, A.
Wang, S.  
Grbie, MS
Horvatie, M.
Kramer, S.
Mukhopadhyay, S.
Conder, K.
Berthier, C.
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Date Issued

2013

Publisher

American Physical Society

Published in
Physical Review Letters
Volume

110

Issue

18

Article Number

187201

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June 27, 2013
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