Magnetothermal transport in the spin-1/2 chains of copper pyrazine dinitrate.
We present experiments on the thermal transport in the spin-1/2 chain compound copper pyrazine dinitrate Cu(C4H4N2)(NO3)2. The heat conductivity shows a surprisingly strong dependence on the applied magnetic field B, characterized at low temperatures by two main features. The first one appearing at low B is a characteristic dip located at muBB approximately kBT, that may arise from umklapp scattering. The second one is a plateaulike feature in the quantum critical regime, muB|B - Bc| < kBT, where Bc is the saturation field at T=0. The latter feature clearly points towards a momentum and field-independent mean free path of the spin excitations, contrary to theoretical expectations.
Sologubenko
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II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, 50937 Köln, Germany.
Berggold
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Lorenz
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Rosch
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Shimshoni
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Phillips
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Turnbull
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