Asymmetric phase diagram and dimensional crossover in a system of spin-1/2 dimers under applied hydrostatic pressure

Abstract

We present the magnetic and structural properties of [Cu(pyrazine)${}_{0.5}$(glycine)]ClO${}_4$ under applied pressure. As previously reported, at ambient pressure this material consists of quasi-two-dimensional layers of weakly coupled antiferromagnetic dimers which undergo Bose-Einstein condensation of triplet excitations between two magnetic field-induced quantum critical points (QCPs). The molecular building blocks from which the compound is constructed give rise to exchange strengths that are considerably lower than those found in other $S=1/2$ dimer materials, which allows us to determine the pressure evolution of the entire field-temperature magnetic phase diagram using radio-frequency magnetometry. We find that a distinct phase emerges above the upper field-induced transition at elevated pressures and also show that an additional QCP is induced at zero-field at a critical pressure of $p_{\mathrm{c}}=15.7(5)$ kbar. Pressure-dependent single-crystal X-ray diffraction and density functional theory calculations indicate that this QCP arises primarily from a dimensional crossover driven by an increase in the interdimer interactions between the planes. While the effect of quantum fluctuations on the lower field-induced transition is enhanced with applied pressure, quantum Monte Carlo calculations suggest that this alone cannot explain an unconventional asymmetry that develops in the phase diagram.

arXiv commentTo appear in Phys. Rev. B

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