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Lattice Dimerization in the Spin-Peierls Compound CuGeO3

B. Büchner, H. Fehske, A. P. Kampf, G. Wellein

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9806022

Abstract

The uniaxial pressure dependences of the exchange coupling and the structural distortion in the dimerized phase of CuGeO3 are analyzed. A minimum magnetic dimerization of 3 % is obtained, incompatible with an adiabatic approach to the spin-Peierls transition. Exploring the properties of an Heisenberg spin chain with dynamical spin-phonon coupling, the dimerization dependence of the spin excitation gap is found to be in qualitative agreement with experiment.

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