We present a 14N nuclear magnetic resonance study of a single crystal of CuBr4(C5H12N)2 (BPCB) consisting of weakly coupled spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic ladders. Treating ladders in the gapless phase as Luttinger liquids, we are able to fully account for (i) the magnetic field dependence of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T_1 at 250 mK and for (ii) the phase transition to a 3D ordered phase occuring below 110 mK due to weak interladder exchange coupling. BPCB is thus an excellent model system where the possibility to control Luttinger liquid parameters in a continuous manner is demonstrated and Luttinger liquid model tested in detail over the whole fermion band.
@article{arxiv.0804.2639,
title = {Controlling Luttinger liquid physics in spin ladders under a magnetic field},
author = {M. Klanjsek and H. Mayaffre and C. Berthier and M. Horvatic and B. Chiari and O. Piovesana and P. Bouillot and C. Kollath and E. Orignac and R. Citro and T. Giamarchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.2639},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures, introduction and conclusion rewritten, published version