Abstract
Dimensionalities of spin orderings or degenerate hard-core bosons in a quasi-one-dimensional (1D) dimer system are examined by the ac susceptibility and specific heat of antiferromagnetic bond-alternating chains in pentafluorophenyl nitronyl nitroxide (). At intermediate fields in the gapless region, the 1D short-range order (SRO) corresponding to the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid and three-dimensional (3D) long-range order (LRO BEC) at lower temperatures are separately observed, as expected from the small interchain interaction. In contrast, a definite region around the critical field was established where 3D LRO occurs without the development of 1D SRO at higher temperatures.
- Received 10 March 2016
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.020408
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