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(abstract)We report experimental and theoretical evidence that Rb2Cu2Mo3O12 has a nonmagnetic tetramer ground state of a two-leg ladder comprising antiferromagnetically coupled frustrated spin- 1/2 chains and exhibits a Haldane spin gap of emergent spin-1 pairs. Three spin excitations split from the spin-1 triplet by a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction are identified in inelastic neutron-scattering and electron spin resonance spectra. A tiny magnetic field generates ferroelectricity without closing the spin gap, indicating a unique class of ferroelectricity induced by a vector spin chirality order.
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Keyword: Rb2Cu2Mo3O12, ferroelectricity, Haldane gap, frustrated spin-1/2 ladder
Date published: 2020-04-22
Publisher: American Physical Society
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First published URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.140408
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Published on MDR: 2021-08-14 03:54:46 +0900
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