Diverging thermal expansion of the spin-ladder system (C${}_5$H${}_{12}$N)${}_2$CuBr${}_4$

Abstract

We present high-resolution measurements of the $c^{\star }$-axis thermal expansion and magnetostriction of piperidinium copper bromide \hp. The experimental data at low temperatures is well accounted for by a two-leg spin-ladder Hamiltonian. The thermal expansion shows a complex behaviour with various sign changes and approaches a $1/\sqrt{T}$ divergence at the critical fields. All low-temperature features are semi-quantitatively explained within a free fermion model; full quantitative agreement is obtained with Quantum Monte Carlo simulations.

4 pages, 5 figures; version 2 is slightly shortened and typos are corrected

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• Thermodynamics of the coupled spin-dimer system TlCuCl3 close to a quantum phase transition

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