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Elementary excitations in S = 1/2 Heisenberg spin chains with alternating g-tensor and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

S A Zvyagin1, J Wosnitza1, A K Kolezhuk2, J Krzystek3 and R Feyerherm4

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The magnetic-excitation spectrum of copper pyrimidine dinitrate, a material containing S = 1/2 antiferromagnetic chains with alternating g-tensor and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, and exhibiting a field-induced spin gap, is probed using tunable-frequency electron spin resonance spectroscopy in magnetic fields up to 25 T. The data are interpreted in frame of the sine-Gordon quantum-field theoretical concept proposed recently by Oshikawa and Affleck. The field-induced gap is measured directly; signatures of soliton and three breather branches are identified.


PACS

76.30.Fc Iron group (3d) ions and impurities (Ti-Cu)

75.40.Gb Dynamic properties (dynamic susceptibility, spin waves, spin diffusion, dynamic scaling, etc.)

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Dates

Issue 1 (2006)



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