The nature of excitations in a molecular Haldane system

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It is well known that an S = 1 antiferromagnetic spin chain is predicted to have a quantum disordered ground state and a gap in its excitation spectrum. This so-called Haldane gap is topological in origin and contrasts dramatically with the case for S = 1/2, whose topology leads to a gapless spectrum. We have recently synthesised an intriguing new series based on S = 1 NiX2(3,5-lutidine)4 molecular complexes formed from quasi-one-dimensional columns of Ni-X...X-Ni. In an experiment at PSI in 2017 we showed that NiI2(3,5-lutidine)4 remains disordered down to 30 mK, suggesting that the system is a highly successful realization of a Haldane chain system. We now plan to investigate the order and dynamics of the system in high field as we close the spin gap and drive the system through a quantum critical point (QCP) in a new experiment, only possible using the HIFI spectrometer at ISIS.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1820151-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/109730991
Provenance
Creator Professor Tom Lancaster; Professor Stephen Blundell; Dr Matjaz Gomilsek; Dr Thomas Hicken; Dr Ben Huddart; Dr Mark Telling; Dr Murray Wilson; Professor Jamie Manson; Dr Francis Pratt
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
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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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-02-12T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-02-16T09:00:00Z