Magnetic Field Dependence of Excitations Near Spin-Orbital Quantum Criticality
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BIFFIN, Alun, RUEGG, Ch, EMBS, Jan Peter, GUIDI, Tatiana, CHEPTIAKOV, Denis V., LOIDL, Alois, TSURKAN, Vladimir, COLDEA, Radu. Magnetic Field Dependence of Excitations Near Spin-Orbital Quantum Criticality. In: Physical Review Letters, 2017, nr. 6(118), pp. 1-14. ISSN 0031-9007. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.067205
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Physical Review Letters
Numărul 6(118) / 2017 / ISSN 0031-9007

Magnetic Field Dependence of Excitations Near Spin-Orbital Quantum Criticality

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.067205

Pag. 1-14

Biffin Alun1, Ruegg Ch1, Embs Jan Peter1, Guidi Tatiana2, Cheptiakov Denis V.1, Loidl Alois3, Tsurkan Vladimir34, Coldea Radu5
 
1 Paul Scherrer Institute,
2 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford,
3 Institut für Physik, Universität Augsburg,
4 Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of Moldova,
5 University of Oxford
 
 
Disponibil în IBN: 23 februarie 2022


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The spinel FeSc2S4 has been proposed to realize a near-critical spin-orbital singlet (SOS) state, where entangled spin and orbital moments fluctuate in a global singlet state on the verge of spin and orbital order. Here we report powder inelastic neutron scattering measurements that observe the full bandwidth of magnetic excitations and we find that spin-orbital triplon excitations of an SOS state can capture well key aspects of the spectrum in both zero and applied magnetic fields up to 8.5 T. The observed shift of low-energy spectral weight to higher energies upon increasing applied field is naturally explained by the entangled spin-orbital character of the magnetic states, a behavior that is in strong contrast to spin-only singlet ground state systems, where the spin gap decreases upon increasing applied field. 

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Ground state, Magnetic fields, magnetism, Neutron scattering, Systems engineering