Science in very high magnetic fields: NMR investigations of exotic quantum spin states
Description
After a short introduction presenting Grenoble High Magnetic Field
Laboratory and its high-field NMR facility, we will illustrate possibilities
of high-field NMR in Solid State Physics on several examples of
low-dimensional, quantum, antiferromagnetic spin systems. We further focus
on two types of 2D, dimer, spin systems, which give raise to very different
ground states under an applied magnetic field. One example is the
"Shastry-Sutherland" compound SrCu2(BO3)2, which exhibits magnetization
plateaus at fractional values of the saturation magnetization. In this
compound plateaus appear because the kinetic energy of the triplet
excitations is strongly reduced by frustration, so that the triplets can
crystallize into a commensurate super-lattice. NMR signature of such a
super-lattice in the 1/8 magnetization plateau of SrCu2(BO3)2 is a unique
observation of this type of magnetization plateau created by spontaneous
breaking of translational symmetry [1]. We shall also discuss some new
results on the magnetic ground states at fields above the 1/8 plateau (i.e.
above 28.4 T), which seemed to be a candidate for a supersolid phase.
Another type of 2D spin system is represented by the so-called "Han purple"
compound, BaCuSi2O6, for which there is no magnetic frustration, and in
which a (2D) Bose-Einstein condensation of triplet excitations occurs above
23.35 T. We shall present a microscopic picture of this complicated high
field phase, in which NMR data reveal that the average boson density in the
condensate is strongly modulated along the direction perpendicular to the 2D
planes, with a density ratio for every second plane nA/nB
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