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Frustration induced Raman scattering in CuGeO3

V. N. Muthukumar, Claudius Gros, Wolfgang Wenzel, Roser Valenti, P. Lemmens, B. Eisener, G. Güntherodt, M. Weiden, C. Geibel, F. Steglich

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9608106

Abstract

We present experimental data for the Raman intensity in the spin-Peierls compound CuGeO3 and theoretical calculations from a one-dimensional frustrated spin model. The theory is based on (a) exact diagonalization and (b) a recently developed solitonic mean field theory. We find good agreement between the 1D-theory in the homogeneous phase and evidence for a novel dimerization of the Raman operator in the spin-Peierls state. Finally we present evidence for a coupling between the interchain exchange, the spin-Peierls order parameter and the magnetic excitations along the chains.

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