Abstract
We investigate the two-magnon Raman scattering from an anisotropic triangular Heisenberg antiferromagnet CsCuCl. We find that the Raman response is very sensitive to magnon-magnon interactions and to scattering geometries, a feature that is in remarkable contrast with the polarization-independent Raman signal from the isotropic triangular Heisenberg antiferromagnet. Since a spin-liquid ground state gives rise to a similar rotationally invariant Raman response, our results on the polarization dependence of the scattering spectrum suggest that Raman spectroscopy provides a useful probe, complementary to neutron scattering, of the ground-state properties of CsCuCl, particularly whether the time-reversal symmetry is broken in the ground state.
- Received 11 December 2012
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.174423
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