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Mesoscopic Phase Coherence in a Quantum Spin Fluid

Published:2007-08-24 Issue:5841 Volume:317 Page:1049-1052
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Xu Guangyong¹²³⁴⁵,Broholm C.¹²³⁴⁵,Soh Yeong-Ah¹²³⁴⁵,Aeppli G.¹²³⁴⁵,DiTusa J. F.¹²³⁴⁵,Chen Ying¹²³⁴⁵,Kenzelmann M.¹²³⁴⁵,Frost C. D.¹²³⁴⁵,Ito T.¹²³⁴⁵,Oka K.¹²³⁴⁵,Takagi H.¹²³⁴⁵

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.

2. Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA.

3. NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA.

4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.

5. London Centre for Nanotechnology and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, 17–19 Gordon Street, London, WC1H OAH UK.

Abstract

Mesoscopic quantum phase coherence is important because it improves the prospects for handling quantum degrees of freedom in technology. Here we show that the development of such coherence can be monitored using magnetic neutron scattering from a one-dimensional spin chain of an oxide of nickel (Y 2 BaNiO 5 ), a quantum spin fluid in which no classical static magnetic order is present. In the cleanest samples, the quantum coherence length is 20 nanometers, which is almost an order of magnitude larger than the classical antiferromagnetic correlation length of 3 nanometers. We also demonstrate that the coherence length can be modified by static and thermally activated defects in a quantitatively predictable manner.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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