Published March 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Drastic change of magnetic phase diagram in doped quantum antiferromagnet TlCu1-xMgxCl3

  • 1. Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Dept. of Physics, Tokyo (Japan)
  • 2. Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Research Center for Low Temperature Physics, Tokyo (Japan)
  • 3. Hahn-Meitner-Institute, Berlin (Germany)

Description

TlCuCl3 is a coupled spin dimer system, which has a singlet ground state with an excitation gap of Δ/gμB=5.5T. TlCu1-xMgxCl3 doped with nonmagnetic Mg2+ ions undergoes impurity-induced magnetic ordering. Because triplet excitation with a finite gap still remains, this doped system can also undergo magnetic-field-induced magnetic ordering. Through specific heat measurements and neutron scattering experiments under a magnetic field, we investigated the phase diagram in TlCu1-xMgxCl3 with x∼0.01, and found that impurity- and field-induced ordered phases are the same. The gapped spin liquid state observed in pure TlCuCl3 is completely wiped out by the small amount of doping. (author)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Journal Volume
75
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 033702.1-033702.4
ISSN
0031-9015

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Notes
20 refs., 5 figs.