CuDCl

Chemical formula:

C8H20O6CuCl2

Lattice type:


Monoclinic

How to grow:

Wet chemistry synthesis

Magnetic model:

S=1/2 spin chain

Why is it cool:

A convenient model material with low saturation field

CuDCl

Copper dioxane chlordie is a typical S=1/2 chain material. What makes it interesting in particular is the really good one-dimensionality, convenient energy scale and the possibility to grow really large crystals up to few cm in size. On the experimental side this often outweighs the inconveniences related to the highly unstable nature of the compound that quickly decomposes in any environment other that dioxane liquid or vapor. In particular, the measurement on just one large crystal of CuDCl has yielded the scaling properties in the magnetized spin chain that are very difficult to access.


CuDCl scaling
Scaling of spin dynamic structure factor at a critical wavevector in magnetized copper dioxane chlordie, measured by means of neutron scattering.

M. Haelg, D. Hüvonen, N. P. Butch, F. Demmel, A. Zheludev,  Finite-​temperature scaling of spin correlations in a partially magnetized Heisenberg S=1/2 chain, external page Phys. Rev. B 92, 104416 (2015);external page arXiv:1507.06487

T. Hong, R. Custelcean, B. C. Sales, B. Roessli, D. K. Singh, A. Zheludev, A novel metal-​organic compound with Heisenberg antiferromagnetic S=1/2 chains, external page Phys. Rev. B 80,132404 , (2009)

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