Effects of in-chain and off-chain substitutions on spin fluctuations in the spin-Peierls compound CuGeO_3

Details Effects of in-chain and off-chain substitutions on spin fluctuations in the spin-Peierls compound CuGeO_3 Effects of in-chain and off-chain substitutions on spin fluctuations in the spin-Peierls compound CuGeO_3

1997-03-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9703060v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

14 pages, 6 eps figures, to be published in PRB

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.55.15076

The effect of in-chain and off-chain substitutions on 1D spin fluctuations in the spin-Peierls compound CuGeO_3 has been studied using Raman scattering in order to understand the interplay between defect induced states, enhanced spin-spin correlations and the ground state of low dimensional systems. In-chain and off-chain substitutions quench the spin-Peierls state and induce 3D antiferromagnetic order at T\leq 5 K. Consequently a suppression of a 1D gap-induced mode as well as a constant intensity of a spinon continuum are observed at low temperatures. A 3D two-magnon density of states now gradually extends to higher temperatures T\leq 60K compared with pure CuGeO_3. This effect is more pronounced in the case of off-chain substitutions (Si) for which a N\'eel state occurs over a larger substitution range, starting at very low concentrations. Besides, additional low energy excitations are induced. These effects, i.e. the shift of a dimensional crossover to higher temperatures are due to an enhancement of the spin-spin correlations induced by a small amount of substitutions. The results are compared with recent Monte Carlo studies on substituted spin ladders, pointing to a similar instability of coupled, dimerized spin chains and spin ladders upon substitution.

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