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Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Aug 15;101(7):077204. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.077204. Epub 2008 Aug 14.

Disordered states in IPA-Cu(ClxBr1-x)3 induced by bond randomness.

Physical review letters

H Manaka, A V Kolomiets, T Goto

Affiliations

  1. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University, Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan. [email protected]

PMID: 18764575 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.077204

Abstract

The mixtures of two spin-gap compounds IPA-Cu(ClxBr1-x)3 are studied by electron paramagnetic resonance and magnetization processes [M(H)]. From electron paramagnetic resonance spectra, the symmetry of the spin-gap state breaks down, even for x=0.99. From M(H) curves for x=0.95 and 0.92, however, spin gaps survive below mu0Hc1=10+/-1 T, and the M(H) slopes bend at mu0Hc3=40+/-1 T, below the saturation field Hc2. Such a curvature suggests an exotic phase transition: Bose-Einstein condensation of spin triplets occurs at Hc1

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