Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2005-01-26
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
revised version, accepted for publication in the New Journal of Physics
Scientific paper
10.1088/1367-2630/8/5/074
We report an electron spin resonance (ESR) study of the s=1/2-Heisenberg pseudo-ladder magnet CaCu2O3 in pulsed magnetic fields up to 40 T. At sub-Terahertz frequencies we observe an ESR signal originating from a small amount of uncompensated spins residing presumably at the imperfections of the strongly antiferromagnetically correlated host spin lattice. The data give evidence that these few percent of ''extra'' spin states are coupled strongly to the bulk spins and are involved in the antiferromagnetic ordering at T_N = 25 K. By mapping the frequency/resonance field diagram we have determined a small gap for magnetic excitations below T_N of the order of 0.3 - 0.8 meV. Such a small value of the gap explains the occurrence of the spin-flop transition in CaCu2O 3 at weak magnetic fields H_{sf} ~ 3 T. Qualitative changes of the ESR response with increasing the field strength give indications that strong magnetic fields reduce the antiferromagnetic correlations and may even suppress the long-range magnetic order in CaCu2O3. ESR data support scenarios with a significant role of the ''extra'' spin states for the properties of low-dimensional quantum magnets.
Arushanov E.
Broto Jean-Marc
Büchner Bernd
Chou Fang-Chieh
Costes Michel
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