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Evidence for strong correlations at finite temperatures in the dimerized magnet Na2Cu2TeO6

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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 104, 期 22, 页码 -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.224430

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  1. National Key Projects for Research and Development of China [2021YFA1400400]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [11822405, 12074174, 12074175, 11774152, 11904170, 12004191]
  3. Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu province [BK20180006, BK20190436, BK20200738]
  4. Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [2021CFB238]
  5. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [020414380183]
  6. Office of Interna-tional Cooperation and Exchanges of Nanjing University
  7. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics

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The research demonstrates that excited quasiparticles in the compound Na2Cu2TeO6 can counter thermal decoherence and maintain strong correlations at elevated temperatures, showing unique dispersive and gap properties.
Dimerized magnets forming alternating Heisenberg chains exhibit quantum coherence and entanglement and thus can find potential applications in quantum information and computation. However, magnetic systems typically undergo thermal decoherence at finite temperatures. Here, we show inelastic neutron scattering results on an alternating antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic chain compound Na2Cu2TeO6 that the excited quasiparticles can counter thermal decoherence and maintain strong correlations at elevated temperatures. At low temperatures, we observe clear dispersive singlet-triplet excitations arising from the dimers formed along the crystalline b axis. The excitation gap is of similar to 18 meV and the bandwidth is about half of the gap. The band top energy has a weak modulation along the [100] direction, indicative of a small interchain coupling. The gap increases while the bandwidth decreases with increasing temperature, leading to a strong reduction in the available phase space for the triplons. As a result, the Lorentzian-type energy broadening becomes highly asymmetric as the temperature is raised. These results are associated with a strongly correlated state resulting from hard-core constraint and quasiparticle interactions. We consider these results to be not only evidence for strong correlations at finite temperatures in Na2Cu2TeO6, but also for the universality of the strongly correlated state in a broad range of quantum magnetic systems.

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