We report low temperature electron spin resonance experimental and theoretical studies of an archetype S=1/2 strong-rung spin ladder material (C5H12N)2CuBr4. Unexpected dynamics is detected deep in the Tomonaga-Luttinger spin liquid regime. Close to the point where the system is half-magnetized (and believed to be equivalent to a gapless easy plane chain in zero field) we observed orientation-dependent spin gap and anomalous g-factor values. Field theoretical analysis demonstrates that the observed low-energy excitation modes in magnetized (C5H12N)2CuBr4 are solitonic excitations caused by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction presence.
@article{arxiv.2006.14899,
title = {Anisotropy-induced soliton excitation in magnetized strong-rung spin ladders},
author = {Yu. V. Krasnikova and S. C. Furuya and V. N. Glazkov and K. Yu. Povarov and D. Blosser and A. Zheludev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.14899},
year = {2020}
}
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6 pages main text and 4 figures with supplemental materials 8 pages and 2 figures