We present a 125Te nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study in the three-dimensional spin web lattice Cu3TeO6 which harbors topological magnons. The 125Te NMR spectra and the Knight-shift K as a function of temperature show a drastic change at TS∼40K much lower than the Néel ordering temperature TN∼61K, providing evidence for the first-order structural phase transition within the magnetically ordered state. Most remarkably, the temperature dependence of the spin-lattice relaxation rate T−11 unravels spin-gap-like magnetic excitations, which sharply sets in at T∗∼75K, the temperature well above TN. The spin-gap behavior may be understood by weakly dispersive optical magnon branches of high-energy spin excitations originating from the unique corner-sharing Cu hexagon spin-1/2 network with low coordination number.
%0 Journal Article
%1 PhysRevResearch.3.033109
%A Baek, Seung-Ho
%A Yeo, Hyeon Woo
%A Park, Jena
%A Choi, Kwang-Yong
%A Büchner, Bernd
%D 2021
%I American Physical Society
%J Phys. Rev. Res.
%K a
%N 3
%P 033109
%R 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.033109
%T Unusual spin pseudogap behavior in the spin web lattice Cu$_3$TeO$_6$ probed by $^125$Te nuclear magnetic resonance
%U https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.033109
%V 3
%X We present a 125Te nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study in the three-dimensional spin web lattice Cu3TeO6 which harbors topological magnons. The 125Te NMR spectra and the Knight-shift K as a function of temperature show a drastic change at TS∼40K much lower than the Néel ordering temperature TN∼61K, providing evidence for the first-order structural phase transition within the magnetically ordered state. Most remarkably, the temperature dependence of the spin-lattice relaxation rate T−11 unravels spin-gap-like magnetic excitations, which sharply sets in at T∗∼75K, the temperature well above TN. The spin-gap behavior may be understood by weakly dispersive optical magnon branches of high-energy spin excitations originating from the unique corner-sharing Cu hexagon spin-1/2 network with low coordination number.
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abstract = {We present a 125Te nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study in the three-dimensional spin web lattice Cu3TeO6 which harbors topological magnons. The 125Te NMR spectra and the Knight-shift K as a function of temperature show a drastic change at TS∼40K much lower than the Néel ordering temperature TN∼61K, providing evidence for the first-order structural phase transition within the magnetically ordered state. Most remarkably, the temperature dependence of the spin-lattice relaxation rate T−11 unravels spin-gap-like magnetic excitations, which sharply sets in at T∗∼75K, the temperature well above TN. The spin-gap behavior may be understood by weakly dispersive optical magnon branches of high-energy spin excitations originating from the unique corner-sharing Cu hexagon spin-1/2 network with low coordination number.},
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author = {Baek, Seung-Ho and Yeo, Hyeon Woo and Park, Jena and Choi, Kwang-Yong and B\"uchner, Bernd},
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title = {Unusual spin pseudogap behavior in the spin web lattice Cu$_\mathbf{3}$TeO$_\mathbf{6}$ probed by $^{125}$Te nuclear magnetic resonance},
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