Excitations from a Bose-Einstein condensate of magnons in coupled spin ladders

Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Apr 20;98(16):167202. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.167202. Epub 2007 Apr 19.

Abstract

The weakly coupled quasi-one-dimensional spin ladder compound (CH3)2CHNH3CuCl3 is studied by neutron scattering in magnetic fields exceeding the critical field of Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons. Commensurate long-range order and the associated Goldstone mode are detected and found to be similar to those in reference to spin-dimer materials. However, for the upper two massive magnon branches, the observed behavior is totally different, culminating in a drastic collapse of excitation bandwidth beyond the transition point.