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Strong Damping of Phononic Heat Current by Magnetic Excitations in SrCu 2 ( BO 3 ) 2 </mml:mrow…

2001; American Physical Society; Volume: 87; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevlett.87.047202

ISSN

1092-0145

Autores

Martin R. Hofmann, T. Lorenz, Götz S. Uhrig, H. Kierspel, Oleg Zabara, A. Freimuth, Hiroshi Kageyama, Yutaka Ueda,

Tópico(s)

Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism

Resumo

Measurements of the thermal conductivity as a function of temperature and magnetic field in the 2D dimer spin system SrCu2(BO3)(2) are presented. In zero magnetic field the thermal conductivity along and perpendicular to the magnetic planes shows a pronounced double-peak structure as a function of temperature. The low-temperature maximum is drastically suppressed with increasing magnetic field. Our quantitative analysis reveals that the heat current is due to phonons and that the double-peak structure arises from pronounced resonant scattering of phonons by magnetic excitations.

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