Issue |
EPL
Volume 88, Number 3, November 2009
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Article Number | 37002 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/88/37002 | |
Published online | 12 November 2009 |
Highly dispersive spin excitations in the chain cuprate Li2CuO2
1
Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung (IFW) - Dresden, Germany, EU
2
Institute for Problems of Materials Science - Krzhizhanovskogo 3, 03180 Kiev, Ukraine
3
Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Dresden - 01062 Dresden, Germany, EU
4
Institute of Physics, ASCR - Prague, Czech Republic, EU
5
Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe - Dresden, Germany, EU
6
Institut Laue Langevin - F-38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France, EU
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Jülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS - Jülich, Germany, EU
Corresponding authors: w.lorenz@ifw-dresden.de s.l.drechsler@ifw-dresden.de
Received:
29
September
2009
Accepted:
25
October
2009
We present an inelastic neutron scattering investigation of Li2CuO2 detecting the long-sought quasi-1D magnetic excitations with a large dispersion along the CuO2-chains
studied up to 25 meV. The total dispersion is governed by a surprisingly large ferromagnetic (FM) nearest-neighbor exchange integral J1 = -228 K. An anomalous quartic dispersion near the zone center and a pronounced minimum near (0,0.11,0.5) r.l.u. (corresponding to a spiral excitation with a pitch angle of about 41°) point to the vicinity of a 3D FM-spiral critical point. The leading exchange couplings are obtained applying standard linear spin-wave theory. The 2nd neighbor inter-chain interaction suppresses a spiral state and drives the FM in-chain ordering below the Néel temperature. The obtained exchange parameters are in agreement with the results for a realistic five-band extended Hubbard Cu O
model and L(S)DA+U predictions.
PACS: 74.72.Jt – Other cuprates, including TI and Hg-based cuprates / 78.70.Nx – Neutron inelastic scattering / 75.30.Ds – Spin waves
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