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Magnetic properties of a quantum spin ladder in proximity to the isotropic limit

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Phys. Rev. B, 103 (20): 205131 (May 18, 2021)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.205131

Abstract

We report on the synthesis, crystal structure, magnetic, thermodynamic, and electron-spin-resonance properties of the coordination complex Cu2(pz)3(4−HOpy)4(ClO4)4 (pz=pyrazine; 4-HOpy=4-hydroxypyridine). This material is identified as a spin-1/2 Heisenberg ladder system with exchange-coupling parameters Jrung/kB=12.1(1)K and Jleg/kB=10.5(3)K Jrung/Jleg=1.15(4). For single crystals our measurements revealed two critical fields, μ0Hc1=4.63(5)T and μ0Hc2=22.78(5)T (for H∥a∗), separating the gapped spin-liquid, gapless Tomonaga-Luttinger-liquid, and fully spin-polarized phase. No signature of a field-induced transition into a magnetically ordered phase was found at temperatures down to 450 mK. The material bridges an important gap by providing an excellent physical realization of an almost isotropic spin-1/2 strong-rung Heisenberg ladder system with modest exchange-coupling energy and critical-field scales.

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