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Inelastic Neutron Scattering from the Spin Ladder Compound (VO)2P2O7

R. S. Eccleston, T. Barnes, J. Brody, J. W. Johnson

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9406016

Abstract

We present results from an inelastic neutron scattering experiment on the candidate Heisenberg spin ladder vanadyl pyrophosphate, (VO)2P2O7. We find evidence for a spin-wave excitation gap of Egap = 3.7 0.2 meV, at a band minimum near Q=0.8 A-1. This is consistent with expectations for triplet spin waves in (VO)2P2O7 in the spin-ladder model, and is to our knowledge the first confirmation in nature of a Heisenberg antiferromagnetic spin ladder.

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