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Spin-gap evolution upon Ca doping in the spin-ladder series Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 studied by inelastic neutron scattering

Type of publication Peer-reviewed
Publikationsform Original article (peer-reviewed)
Author Deng G., Tsyrulin N., Bourges P., Lamago D., Ronnow H., Kenzelmann M., Danilkin S., Pomjakushina E., Conder K.,
Project Quantum Magnetism - Spinons, Skyrmions and Dipoles
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Original article (peer-reviewed)

Journal PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume (Issue) 88(1)
Page(s) 014504
Title of proceedings PHYSICAL REVIEW B
DOI 10.1103/physrevb.88.014504

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URL https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/189476?ln=en
Type of Open Access Repository (Green Open Access)

Abstract

The spin-gap evolution upon Ca doping in Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 was systematically investigated using inelastic neutron scattering. We discover that the singlet-triplet spin-gap excitation survives in this series with x up to 13, indicating the singlet dimer ground state in these compounds. This observation corrects the previous speculation that the spin gap collapses at x similar to 13 by the NMR technique. The strong intensity modulation along Q(H) in x = 0 gradually evolves into a Q-independent feature in x > 11. This could be attributed to the localized Cu moment magnetism developing into an itinerant magnetism with increasing x. It is a surprise that the spin gap persists in the normal state of this spin-ladder system with metallic behavior, which evidences the possibility of magnetically mediated carrier pairing mechanism in a two-leg spin-ladder lattice.
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