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Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 257203 (2006) [4 pages]

Quantum Criticality in an Organic Magnet

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M. B. Stone1,2, C. Broholm2,3, D. H. Reich2, O. Tchernyshyov2, P. Vorderwisch4, and N. Harrison5
1Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennennesse 37831, USA
2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
3National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA
4Hahn-Meitner Institut, D-14109 Berlin, Germany
5National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA

Received 17 March 2005; revised 14 February 2006; published 29 June 2006

Exchange interactions between S=1/2 sites in piperazinium hexachlorodicuprate produce a frustrated bilayer magnet with a singlet ground state. We have determined the field-temperature phase diagram by high field magnetization and neutron scattering experiments. There are two quantum critical points: Hc1=7.5  T separates a quantum paramagnet phase from a three dimensional, antiferromagnetically ordered state while Hc2=37  T marks the onset of a fully polarized state. The ordered phase, which we describe as a magnon Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), is embedded in a quantum critical regime with short range correlations. A low temperature anomaly in the BEC phase boundary indicates that additional low energy features of the material become important near Hc1.

© 2006 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.257203
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.257203
PACS:
75.10.Jm, 75.40.Gb, 75.50.Ee