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| author | Scatena, Rebecca Hernandez-Melian, Alberto Huddart, Benjamin M. Curley, Sam Williams, Robert Manuel, Pascal Blundell, Stephen J. Guguchia, Zurab Manson, Zachary E. Manson, Jamie L. Noe, G. Timothy Singleton, John Lancaster, Tom Goddard, Paul A. Johnson, Roger D. |
| author_facet | Scatena, Rebecca Hernandez-Melian, Alberto Huddart, Benjamin M. Curley, Sam Williams, Robert Manuel, Pascal Blundell, Stephen J. Guguchia, Zurab Manson, Zachary E. Manson, Jamie L. Noe, G. Timothy Singleton, John Lancaster, Tom Goddard, Paul A. Johnson, Roger D. |
| contents | We present neutron diffraction, muon spin rotation and pulsed-field magnetometry measurements on the Heisenberg quantum chiral chain [Cu(pym)(H2O)4]SiF6.H2O, which displays a four-fold-periodic rotation of the local environment around the Cu(II) S = 1/2 ions from site to site along the chain. Previous measurements on this material have shown the absence of magnetic order down to surprisingly low temperatures >= 20 mK, as well as the presence of an energy gap for magnetic excitations that grows linearly with magnetic field. Here we find evidence at dilution refrigerator temperatures for a field-induced transition to long-range magnetic order above an applied magnetic field of 3 T. From the polarization of magnetic moments observed in applied fields we can identify the static magnetic structure that best accounts for the data. The proposed model is supported microscopically by the presence of an alternating component of the g tensor, which produces an internal two-fold staggered field that dictates both the direction of the ordered moments and the effective coupling between adjacent chains. The observed magnetic structure is contrary to previous proposals for the departure of the magnitude and field dependence of the energy gap from the predictions of the sine-Gordon model. |
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| spellingShingle | Magnetic-field-induced ordering in a spin-1/2 chiral chain Scatena, Rebecca Hernandez-Melian, Alberto Huddart, Benjamin M. Curley, Sam Williams, Robert Manuel, Pascal Blundell, Stephen J. Guguchia, Zurab Manson, Zachary E. Manson, Jamie L. Noe, G. Timothy Singleton, John Lancaster, Tom Goddard, Paul A. Johnson, Roger D. Strongly Correlated Electrons We present neutron diffraction, muon spin rotation and pulsed-field magnetometry measurements on the Heisenberg quantum chiral chain [Cu(pym)(H2O)4]SiF6.H2O, which displays a four-fold-periodic rotation of the local environment around the Cu(II) S = 1/2 ions from site to site along the chain. Previous measurements on this material have shown the absence of magnetic order down to surprisingly low temperatures >= 20 mK, as well as the presence of an energy gap for magnetic excitations that grows linearly with magnetic field. Here we find evidence at dilution refrigerator temperatures for a field-induced transition to long-range magnetic order above an applied magnetic field of 3 T. From the polarization of magnetic moments observed in applied fields we can identify the static magnetic structure that best accounts for the data. The proposed model is supported microscopically by the presence of an alternating component of the g tensor, which produces an internal two-fold staggered field that dictates both the direction of the ordered moments and the effective coupling between adjacent chains. The observed magnetic structure is contrary to previous proposals for the departure of the magnitude and field dependence of the energy gap from the predictions of the sine-Gordon model. |
| title | Magnetic-field-induced ordering in a spin-1/2 chiral chain |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08717 |