Published May 1, 2000 | Version v1
Journal article

Role of single-ion excitations in the mixed-spin quasi-one-dimensional quantum antiferromagnet Nd2BaNiO5

  • 1. Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Aoyama-Gakuin University, 6-16-1 Chitosedai, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157 Japan (Japan)
  • 3. Universite de Geneve DPMC 24, quai Ernest Ansermet 1211, Geneve 4, (Switzerland)
  • 4. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Building 7692, MS 6393, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 (United States)
  • 5. Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, (Japan)

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Inelastic neutron scattering experiments on Nd2BaNiO5 single crystals and powder samples are used to study the dynamic coupling of one-dimensional Haldane-gap excitations in the S=1 Ni2+-chains to local crystal-field transitions, associated with the rare earth ions. Substantial interference between the two types of excitations is observed even in the one-dimensional paramagnetic phase. Despite that, the results provide solid justification for the previously proposed ''static staggered field'' model for R2BaNiO5 nickelates. The observed behavior is qualitatively explained by a simple chain-random-phase-approximation model. (c) 2000 The American Physical Society

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Journal Title
Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Journal Volume
61
Journal Issue
17
Journal Page Range
p. 11601-11612
ISSN
1098-0121