Crossover between diffusive and ballistic transport regimes in the S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain SrCuO2

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The question of whether the spin transport in an S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain is ballistic or diffusive remains intensely discussed theoretically and studied experimentally. While spin transport in an integrable spin-1/2 chain would normally be expected to be ballistic, a number of experiments have found evidence for either type of transport of different systems and even cross-over regimes in certain systems. These findings can be explained in the context of recent theoretical work by Sirker et al. [1] who argue that both channels are present, with a cross-over taking place at an energy scale determined by the magnetic exchange and temperature. Here we propose to study the spin transport in the highly-ideal spin-1/2 chain SrCuO2, which due to its very large exchange constant (J=2100 K) should allow sensitive tuning between the two competing regimes in large magnetic fields.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.58446736
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/58446736
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Creator Dr Francis Pratt; Dr Johannes Moeller
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-04-19T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-04-21T08:00:00Z