Pressure-induced O(2) quantum phase transition in a quantum antiferromagnet

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Quantum phase transitions (QPT) continue to attract the attention of experimentalists and theorists alike. Experiments on quantum magnets have been crucial to understand their underlying physics. Famous examples include the Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons (which spontaneously breaks O(2) or the isomorphic U(1) symmetry, dynamical critical exponent z = 2), the Ising chain in transverse fields (emergent E8 symmetry), and the pressure-induced QPT in TlCuCl3 (O(3), z = 1) which displays a longitudinal Higgs excitation. Here we propose to perform time-of-flight spectroscopy on what we believe is the first realization of a 3D O(2)-breaking z = 1 QPT in the material dichloro-tetrakis-thiourea-nickel (DTN), in which we have recently discovered a pressure-induced quantum critical point (QCP) at around 1 kbar.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.58478762
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/58478762
Provenance
Creator Professor Andrey Zheludev; Dr Johannes Moeller; Mr Gerard Perren; Mr Gediminas Simutis; Dr Tatiana Guidi
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 2015-04-23T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-04-28T09:00:00Z