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Spinon continuum in the Heisenberg quantum chain compound Sr$_2$V$_3$O$_9$

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(2023)cite arxiv:2307.12093Comment: 19 pages, 9 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2102.08376; text overlap with arXiv:2111.03625 by other authors.

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Magnetic excitations in the spin chain candidate Sr$_2$V$_3$O$_9$ have been investigated by inelastic neutron scattering on a single crystal sample. A spinon continuum with a bandwidth of $\sim22$ meV is observed along the chain formed by alternating magnetic V$^4+$ and nonmagnetic V$^5+$ ions. Incipient magnetic Bragg peaks due to weak ferromagnetic interchain couplings emerge when approaching the magnetic transition at $T_N5.3$ K while the excitations remain gapless within the instrumental resolution. Comparisons to the Bethe ansatz, density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) calculations, and effective field theories confirm Sr$_2$V$_3$O$_9$ as a host of weakly coupled $S = 1/2$ chains dominated by antiferromagnetic intrachain interactions of $\sim7.1$(1) meV.

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