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@ARTICLE{Bera:837027,
author = {Bera, A. K. and Lake, B. and Essler, F. H. L. and
Vanderstraeten, L. and Hubig, C. and Schollwöck, U. and
Islam, A. T. M. N. and Schneidewind, A. and Quintero-Castro,
D. L.},
title = {{S}pinon confinement in a quasi-one-dimensional anisotropic
{H}eisenberg magnet},
journal = {Physical review / B},
volume = {96},
number = {5},
issn = {2469-9950},
address = {Woodbury, NY},
publisher = {Inst.},
reportid = {FZJ-2017-06043},
pages = {054423},
year = {2017},
abstract = {Confinement is a process by which particles with fractional
quantum numbers bind together to formquasiparticles with
integer quantum numbers. The constituent particles are
confined by an attractive interactionwhose strength
increases with increasing particle separation and, as a
consequence, individual particles arenot found in isolation.
This phenomenon is well known in particle physics where
quarks are confined inbaryons and mesons. An analogous
phenomenon occurs in certain spatially anisotropic magnetic
insulators.These can be thought of in terms of weakly
coupled chains of spins S = 1/2, and a spin flip thus
carriesinteger spin S = 1. The collective excitations in
these systems, called spinons, turn out to carry fractional
spinquantum number S = 1/2. Interestingly, at sufficiently
low temperatures the weak coupling between chains caninduce
an attractive interaction between pairs of spinons that
increases with their separation and thus leads
toconfinement. In this paper, we employ inelastic neutron
scattering to investigate the spinon-confinement processin
the quasi-one-dimensional, spin-1/2 antiferromagnet with
Heisenberg-Ising (XXZ) anisotropy SrCo2V2O8.A wide
temperature range both above and below the long-range
ordering temperature TN = 5.2 K is explored.Spinon
excitations are observed above TN in quantitative agreement
with established theory. Below TN pairs ofspinons are
confined and two sequences of meson-like bound states with
longitudinal and transverse polarizationsare observed.
Several theoretical approaches are used to explain the data.
These are based on a description interms of a
one-dimensional, S = 1/2 XXZ antiferromagnetic spin chain,
where the interchain couplings aremodeled by an effective
staggered magnetic mean field. A wide range of exchange
anisotropies are investigatedand the parameters specific to
SrCo2V2O8 are identified. Recently developed theoretical
technique based ontangent-space matrix product states gives
a very complete description of the data and provides good
agreementnot onlywith the energies of the bound modes but
also with their intensities.We also successfully explain the
effectof temperature on the excitations including the
experimentally observed thermally induced resonance
betweenlongitudinal modes below TN and the transitions
between thermally excited spinon states above TN. In
summary,our work establishes SrCo2V2O8 as a beautiful
paradigm for spinon confinement in a
quasi-one-dimensionalquantum magnet and provides a
comprehensive picture of this process.},
cin = {JCNS (München) ; Jülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS
(München) ; JCNS-FRM-II / JCNS-2},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-FRM-II-20110218 /
I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-2-20110106},
pnm = {6G15 - FRM II / MLZ (POF3-6G15) / 6G4 - Jülich Centre for
Neutron Research (JCNS) (POF3-623)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G15 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G4},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)PANDA-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000407777600003},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.96.054423},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/837027},
}