Raman Scattering from Frustrated Quantum Spin Chains
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- 24 February 1997
Abstract
Magnetic Raman scattering from a frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg-chain is considered with a focus on the uniform phase of the spin-Peierls compound CuGeO_3. The Raman intensity is analyzed in terms of a Loudon-Fleury scattering process using a spinless-fermion mean-field theory developed for the frustrated spin-chain. A comparison to experimental data is presented and the frustration and temperature dependence is studied. In good agreement with observed spectra a broad inelastic four-spinon continuum is found at low temperatures above the spin-Peierls transition. At high temperatures the intensity develops a quasi-elastic line analogous to experiment.Keywords
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- Version 1, 1997-02-24, ArXiv
- Published version: Physical Review B, 56 (5), 2551.
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