Thermal expansion of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg-chain compound Cu(C$_4$H$_4$N$_2$)(NO$_3$)$_2$

Details Thermal expansion of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg-chain compound Cu(C$_4$H$_4$N$_2$)(NO$_3$)$_2$ Thermal expansion of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg-chain compound Cu(C$_4$H$_4$N$_2$)(NO$_3$)$_2$

2009-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/0907.0400v1

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 200, 012169 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 3 figures; to appear in the proceedings of the ICM 09 held in Karlsruhe, Germany

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-6596/200/1/012169

Compounds containing magnetic subsystems representing simple model spin systems with weak magnetic coupling constants are ideal candidates to test theoretical predictions for the generic behavior close to quantum phase transitions. We present measurements of the thermal expansion and magnetostriction of the spin-1/2-chain compound copper pyrazine dinitrate Cu(C$_4$H$_4$N$_2$)(NO$_3$)$_2$. Of particular interest is the low-temperature thermal expansion close to the saturation field $H_c \simeq 13.9 \mathrm{T}$, which defines a quantum phase transition from the gapless Luttinger liquid state to the fully saturated state with a finite excitation gap. We observe a sign change of the thermal expansion for the different ground states, and at the quantum critical point $H_c$ the low-temperature expansion approaches a $1/\sqrt{T}$ divergence. Thus, our data agree very well with the expected quantum critical behaviour.

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