Excitations in the quantum paramagnetic phase of the quasi-one-dimensional Ising magnet CoNb$_2$O$_6$ in a transverse field: Geometric frustration and quantum renormalization effects
The quasi-one-dimensional (1D) Ising ferromagnet CoNb$_2$O$_6$ has recently been driven via applied transverse magnetic fields through a continuous quantum phase transition from spontaneous magnetic order to a quantum paramagnet, and dramatic changes were observed in the spin dynamics, characteristi...
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| author | Cabrera, I Thompson, J Coldea, R Prabhakaran, D Bewley, R Guidi, T Rodriguez-Rivera, J Stock, C |
| author_facet | Cabrera, I Thompson, J Coldea, R Prabhakaran, D Bewley, R Guidi, T Rodriguez-Rivera, J Stock, C |
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| description | The quasi-one-dimensional (1D) Ising ferromagnet CoNb$_2$O$_6$ has recently been driven via applied transverse magnetic fields through a continuous quantum phase transition from spontaneous magnetic order to a quantum paramagnet, and dramatic changes were observed in the spin dynamics, characteristic of weakly perturbed 1D Ising quantum criticality. We report here extensive single-crystal inelastic neutron scattering measurements of the magnetic excitations throughout the three-dimensional (3D) Brillouin zone in the quantum paramagnetic phase just above the critical field to characterize the effects of the finite interchain couplings. In this phase, we observe that excitations have a sharp, resolution-limited line shape at low energies and over most of the dispersion bandwidth, as expected for spin-flip quasiparticles. We map the full bandwidth along the strongly dispersive chain direction and resolve clear modulations of the dispersions in the plane normal to the chains, characteristic of frustrated interchain couplings in an antiferromagnetic isosceles triangular lattice. The dispersions can be well parametrized using a linear spin-wave model that includes interchain couplings and further neighbor exchanges. The observed dispersion bandwidth along the chain direction is smaller than that predicted by a linear spin-wave model using exchange values determined at zero field, and this effect is attributed to quantum renormalization of the dispersion beyond the spin-wave approximation in fields slightly above the critical field, where quantum fluctuations are still significant. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:abbd2f8a-01da-4841-bfc5-2238026f97dc2022-03-27T03:24:00ZExcitations in the quantum paramagnetic phase of the quasi-one-dimensional Ising magnet CoNb$_2$O$_6$ in a transverse field: Geometric frustration and quantum renormalization effectsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:abbd2f8a-01da-4841-bfc5-2238026f97dcEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordAmerican Physical Society2014Cabrera, IThompson, JColdea, RPrabhakaran, DBewley, RGuidi, TRodriguez-Rivera, JStock, CThe quasi-one-dimensional (1D) Ising ferromagnet CoNb$_2$O$_6$ has recently been driven via applied transverse magnetic fields through a continuous quantum phase transition from spontaneous magnetic order to a quantum paramagnet, and dramatic changes were observed in the spin dynamics, characteristic of weakly perturbed 1D Ising quantum criticality. We report here extensive single-crystal inelastic neutron scattering measurements of the magnetic excitations throughout the three-dimensional (3D) Brillouin zone in the quantum paramagnetic phase just above the critical field to characterize the effects of the finite interchain couplings. In this phase, we observe that excitations have a sharp, resolution-limited line shape at low energies and over most of the dispersion bandwidth, as expected for spin-flip quasiparticles. We map the full bandwidth along the strongly dispersive chain direction and resolve clear modulations of the dispersions in the plane normal to the chains, characteristic of frustrated interchain couplings in an antiferromagnetic isosceles triangular lattice. The dispersions can be well parametrized using a linear spin-wave model that includes interchain couplings and further neighbor exchanges. The observed dispersion bandwidth along the chain direction is smaller than that predicted by a linear spin-wave model using exchange values determined at zero field, and this effect is attributed to quantum renormalization of the dispersion beyond the spin-wave approximation in fields slightly above the critical field, where quantum fluctuations are still significant. |
| spellingShingle | Cabrera, I Thompson, J Coldea, R Prabhakaran, D Bewley, R Guidi, T Rodriguez-Rivera, J Stock, C Excitations in the quantum paramagnetic phase of the quasi-one-dimensional Ising magnet CoNb$_2$O$_6$ in a transverse field: Geometric frustration and quantum renormalization effects |
| title | Excitations in the quantum paramagnetic phase of the
quasi-one-dimensional Ising magnet CoNb$_2$O$_6$ in a transverse field:
Geometric frustration and quantum renormalization effects |
| title_full | Excitations in the quantum paramagnetic phase of the
quasi-one-dimensional Ising magnet CoNb$_2$O$_6$ in a transverse field:
Geometric frustration and quantum renormalization effects |
| title_fullStr | Excitations in the quantum paramagnetic phase of the
quasi-one-dimensional Ising magnet CoNb$_2$O$_6$ in a transverse field:
Geometric frustration and quantum renormalization effects |
| title_full_unstemmed | Excitations in the quantum paramagnetic phase of the
quasi-one-dimensional Ising magnet CoNb$_2$O$_6$ in a transverse field:
Geometric frustration and quantum renormalization effects |
| title_short | Excitations in the quantum paramagnetic phase of the
quasi-one-dimensional Ising magnet CoNb$_2$O$_6$ in a transverse field:
Geometric frustration and quantum renormalization effects |
| title_sort | excitations in the quantum paramagnetic phase of the quasi one dimensional ising magnet conb 2 o 6 in a transverse field geometric frustration and quantum renormalization effects |
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