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Sharp quantum phase transition in the frustrated spin-1/2 Ising chain antiferromagnet CaCoV2O7

Isha1, A. K. Bera2,3,*, Guratinder Kaur4,5, C. Stock5, Koushik Chakraborty1, Pascal Puphal4, M. Isobe4, K. Küster4, Y. Skourski6 et al.

L. Bhaskaran6, S. A. Zvyagin6, S. Luther6,7, J. Gronemann6, H. Kühne6, C. Salazar Mejía6, M. Pregelj8, Thomas C. Hansen9, S. D. Kaushik10, David Voneshen11,12, R. Kulkarni13, N. P. Lalla1, S. M. Yusuf2,3, A. Thamizhavel13, and Arvind Kumar Yogi1,13,†

  • *Contact author: akbera@barc.gov.in
  • †Contact author: akyogi@csr.res.in
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Phys. Rev. Research 6, L032010 – Published 11 July, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L032010

Abstract

We report on a quantum critical behavior in the quasi-1D spin-1/2 zigzag frustrated chain antiferromagnet CaCoV2O7, induced by an applied magnetic field. Below TN=3.3 K our zero-field neutron diffraction studies revealed the up-up-down-down spin structure, stabilized by an order-by-disorder phenomenon. At base temperature, the magnetic order is suppressed by an applied magnetic field (B), inducing a transition into a quantum paramagnetic state at Bc=3 T, as revealed by both neutron diffraction and ESR data. The transition exhibits an unusually sharp phase boundary with the critical exponent ϕ=0.164(3)≈1/6, in contrast to the earlier experimental observations for uniform spin-1/2 chain systems. Such a sharp QPT is anticipated due to a rare combination of spin-orbit coupling and competing NN and NNN exchange interactions J1 and J2 of the zigzag spin chain.

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Phys. Rev. Research 6, L032010– Published 11 July, 2024
  • Received 29 April 2021
  • Revised 23 January 2024
  • Accepted 7 June 2024
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