Tuning confinement potential of spinons in an Ising chain using magnetic fields

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The Ising chain realises the fundamental paradigm of spin fractionalization, where locally flipping a spin creates two kinks (spinons) that can separate away at no energy cost, very different from conventional three-dimensional ordered magnets where a local spin deviation propagates coherently as a magnon. In a quasi-1D system the mean-field effects of the weak 3D couplings confine the spinons into a rich structure of bound states, analogous to quark confinement into mesons. Here we propose to tune externally the confinement potential between spinons by means on a variable magnetic field along the Ising direction to explore how the bound states in the quasi-1D Ising ferromagnet CoNb2O6 evolve from the limit of very weak confinement (many bound states, energy separation scaling as field to power 2/3) to very strong confinement (only two bound states, energies linear in field).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.90595100
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/90595100
Provenance
Creator Dr Prabhakaran Dharmalingam; Miss Ineke Broeders; Professor Radu Coldea; Dr Rob Bewley; Mr David Macdougal; Miss Leonie Woodland
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-03-13T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-03-18T08:00:00Z