Specific heat study of the field-induced magnetic ordering in the spin-gap system TlCuCl3

A. Oosawa, H. Aruga Katori, and H. Tanaka
Phys. Rev. B 63, 134416 – Published 6 March 2001
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Abstract

Specific heat measurements have been performed in the coupled dimer system TlCuCl3, which has a singlet ground state with the excitation gap Δ7.5 K. The cusplike anomaly indicative of the three-dimensional magnetic ordering was clearly observed in magnetic fields higher than the critical field Hg corresponding to the gap Δ. The phase boundary determined by the present specific heat measurements coincides with that determined by previous magnetization measurements. The phase boundary can be described by the power law [Hc(T)Hg]Tφ with φ=2.1(1). This result supports the magnon Bose condensation picture for the field-induced magnetic ordering in TlCuCl3 [Nikuni et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5868 (2000)].

  • Received 25 October 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.63.134416

©2001 American Physical Society

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A. Oosawa1, H. Aruga Katori2, and H. Tanaka1

  • 1Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
  • 2RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan

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Vol. 63, Iss. 13 — 1 April 2001

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