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量子自旋链磁体LiCu $_2$ O $_2$中自旋螺旋度与电极化的强度矢量的相关性

Correlation between spin helicity and electric polarization vector in quantum-spin chain magnet LiCu$_2$O$_2$

S. Seki, Y. Yamasaki, M. Soda, M. Matsuura, K. Hirota, Y. Tokura

摘要:

对$S=1/2$链状多铁性LiCu $_2$ O $_2$进行了极化中子散射测量。在自发极化沿c轴的铁电基态中,证实了在$bc$平面中存在横向螺旋自旋分量。当电极化的强度方向反转时,观察到由${\bf C}_{ij} = {\bf S}_i \times {\bf S}_j$($i$和$j$是相邻的自旋位点)定义的矢量自旋手性反转,表明自旋电流模型或逆Dzyaloshinskiiii-Moriya机制甚至适用于该$e_{\mathrm{g}}$ -电子量子自旋系统。极化中子的微分散射强度与经典自旋$bc$ -摆线结构的预期结果有很大的差异,这意味着大的量子涨落效应。

英文摘要:

Measurements of polarized neutron scattering were performed on a $S=1/2$ chain multiferroic LiCu$_2$O$_2$. In the ferroelectric ground state with the spontaneous polarization along the c-axis, the existence of transverse spiral spin component in the $bc$-plane was confirmed. When the direction of electric polarization is reversed, the vector spin chirality as defined by ${\bf C}_{ij} = {\bf S}_i \times {\bf S}_j$ ($i$ and $j$ being the neighboring spin sites) is observed to be reversed, indicating that the spin-current model or the inverse Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya mechanism is applicable even to this $e_{\mathrm{g}}$-electron quantum-spin system. Differential scattering intensity of polarized neutrons shows a large discrepancy from that expected for the classical-spin $bc$-cycloidal structure, implying the effect of large quantum fluctuation.

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