Raman Scattering from Magnetic Excitations in coupled Spin Ladders

Abstract

We consider Raman scattering of coupled two leg spin ladders in the Fleury-Loudon regime. We derive the dependence of the intensity with polarization of the incoming light and temperature and discuss the effect of interaction of the elementary excitations on the shape of the spectrum. We show that Raman scattering spectrum is sensitive to the effective dimensionality of the coupled ladder system, making Raman scattering useful to discriminate true ladder systems from quasi two dimensional spin gap systems.