1997/08/11 by Alan Tennant, Tennant, Alan, Stephen Nagler +9
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #cond-mat.stat-mech #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9708078
8 pages of Latex with 5 ps figures, To accompany invited talk by Alan Tennant at ICNS 97 17-21st August 1997 in Toronto. Submitted to Physica B
arxiv created 1997/08/11 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Magnetic excitations in an array of (VO)2P2O7 single crystals have been measured using inelastic neutron scattering. Until now, (VO)2P2O7 has been thought of as a two-leg antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin ladder with chains running in the a-direction. The present results show unequivocally that (VO)2P2O7 is best described as an alternating spin-chain directed along the crystallographic b-direction. In addition to the expected magnon with magnetic zone-center energy gap DE = 3.1 meV, a second excitation is observed at an energy just below 2DE. The higher mode may be a triplet two-magnon bound state. Numerical results in support of bound modes are presented.