Inelastic neutron scattering, susceptibility, and high-field magnetization identify LiCuVO4 as a nearest-neighbour ferromagnetic, next-nearest-neighbour frustrated, quasi-one-dimensional helimagnet, which is largely influenced by quantum fluctuations. Complementary band structure calculations provide a microscopic model with the correct sign and magnitude of the major exchange integrals.
Title
Quantum helimagnetism of the frustrated spin-(1)/(2) chain LiCuVO4
Published in
Europhysics Letters
Volume
70
Issue
2
Pages
237-243
Date
2005
ISSN
0295-5075
Note
Inst Max Von Laue Paul Langevin, F-38042 Grenoble, France. Univ Oxford, Clarendon Lab, Oxford OX1 3PU, England. CEA, DRFMC, SPSMS, F-38054 Grenoble, France. Max Planck Inst Solid State Res, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany. Lab Natl Champs Magnet Pulses, F-31432 Toulouse, France. Max Planck Inst Chem Phys Solids, D-01187 Dresden, Germany. IFW Dresden, Inst Festkorpertheorie, Dresden, Germany. Univ Magdeburg, D-39106 Magdeburg, Germany. ASCR, Inst Phys, Prague, Czech Republic. Univ Frankfurt, D-60054 Frankfurt, Germany. Paul Scherrer Inst, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland. Enderle, M, Inst Max Von Laue Paul Langevin, BP 156, F-38042 Grenoble, France.
Record creation date
2007-01-24
