Magnetic Excitations in the Spin Gap System TlCuCl$_3$.pdf

a r X i v : c o n d - m a t / 0 0 0 4 1 0 8 v 1 7 A p r 2 0 0 0 Magnetic Excitations in the Spin Gap System TlCuCl3 Akira Oosawa?, Tetsuya Kato, Hidekazu Tanaka, Hidehiro Uekusa1, Yuji Ohashi1, Kenji Nakajima2, Masakazu Nishi2 and Kazuhisa Kakurai2 Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551 1Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551 2Neutron Scattering Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokai, Naka-gun, Ibaraki 319-1106 (February 6, 2008) Abstract Single-crystal neutron inelastic scattering was performed in order to investi- gate the magnetic excitations in the spin gap system TlCuCl3. The constant- Q energy scan profiles were collected in the a? ? c? plane. Three excitations are observed for E≤15 meV. One of the excitations is identified to be mag- netic excitation. The lowest magnetic excitation with E ～ 0.5 meV occurs at Q = (1, 0, 1), as observed in KCuCl3. The dispersion relation of the magnetic excitation can be fitted to the dispersion formula derived from the weakly cou- pled dimer model. The intradimer interaction is evaluated as J = 5.23 meV, which coincides with the value estimated from the susceptibility data. How- ever, one of the interdimer interactions obtained is so large that the weakly coupled dimer model is broken down. PACS number 75.10.Jm, 78.70.Nx Typeset using REVTEX ?E-mail: a-oosawa@lee.phys.titech.ac.jp 1 The quantum spin systems with spatial structures such as spin ladders, exchange- alternating chains and coupled antiferromagnetic dimer systems often have the excitation gap (spin gap) between the singlet ground state and the lowest excited triplet. Although the presence of the gap can be recognized through the exponential decrease of the susceptibility toward zero for T→0 and the zero magnetization plateau, the information on the magnetic excitation is necessary to elucidate the microscopic mechani