Kikuchi et al. Reply:

H. Kikuchi¹, Y. Fujii¹, M. Chiba¹, S. Mitsudo², T. Idehara², T. Tonegawa³, K. Okamoto⁴, T. Sakai⁵, T. Kuwai⁶, and H. Ohta^7
1Department of Applied Physics University of Fukui Fukui 910-8507, Japan
²Research Center for Development of Far-Infrared Region University of Fukui Fukui 910-8507, Japan
³Department of Mechanical Engineering Fukui University of Technology Fukui 910-8505, Japan
⁴Department of Physics Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
⁵Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute SPring-8, Mikazuki Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
⁶Faculty of Science Toyama University Toyama 930-8555, Japan
⁷Molecular Photoscience Research Center Kobe University Kobe 657-8501, Japan

Original Article: H. Kikuchi, Y. Fujii, M. Chiba, S. Mitsudo, T. Idehara, T. Tonegawa, K. Okamoto, T. Sakai, T. Kuwai, and H. Ohta, Experimental Observation of the 1/3 Magnetization Plateau in the Diamond-Chain Compound Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 227201 (2005).