Investigation of the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of magnons in YbAl3C3 using neutron scattering in high magnetic fields

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Our neutron scattering study on YbAl3C3 clearly reveals the presence of two well defined magnetic excitations at 1.5 and 3 meV at 4 K due to spin-dimer formation. Interestingly, the specific heat in zero applied field exhibits a peak near 5 K, while in 9 T applied field the peak moves to T->0 K. This 9 T field correspond to the same magnetic field where the magnetization at 1.1 K exhibits a jump and reveals plateaus, which indicates that at HC=9 T YbAl3C3 the magnons undergo Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). Direct evidence of the BEC in YbAl3C3 can be obtained if the field dependence of the spin-gap can be measured and shown to close at HC=9T. This experiment is crucial and would help to confirm whether YbAl3C3 is really in a magnon BEC state or not at 9T field. We therefore propose to carry out high field and high resolution inelastic neutron scattering investigations using LET.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24090480
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24090480
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Creator Professor Keith McEwen; Dr Aidy Hillier; Dr Devashi Adroja; Professor Je-Geun Park; Professor Masashi Kosaka
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
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 Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Point 2014-05-12T18:05:07Z