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Decay of spin-Peierls state in CuGeO3:Fe. The case of a strong disorder

S. V. Demishev, R. V. Bunting, A. A. Pronin, N. E. Sluchanko, N. A. Samarin, H. Ohta, S. Okubo, Y. Oshima, L. I. Leonyuk, M. M. Markina

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0110177

Abstract

Influence of doping by iron impurity on spin-Peierls state in CuGeO3 is studied. ESR measurements for the frequency/temperature domain 60-450 GHz/ 1.8-300 K and specific heat data obtained for the interval 6-20 K show that insertion of 1% of Fe completely destroy both spin-Peierls and antiferromagnetic orders. Damping of long-range magnetic order is accompanied by onset at T<20 K of power asymptotics for magnetic susceptibility chi~T-alpha and magnetic part of specific heat cm~T(1-alpha), with the index alpha=0.35-0.37. This effect is characteristic to the limit of strong disorder for doped CuGeO3 and may reflect formation of the Griffiths phase at low temperatures in CuGeO3:Fe.

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