Thermal conductivity of Mg-dopedCuGeO3at very low temperatures: Heat conduction by antiferromagnetic magnons

J. Takeya, I. Tsukada, Yoichi Ando, T. Masuda, K. Uchinokura
2000 Physical Review B (Condensed Matter)  
Thermal conductivity \kappa is measured at very low temperatures down to 0.28 K for pure and Mg-doped CuGeO_3 single crystals. The doped samples carry larger amount of heat than the pure sample at the lowest temperature. This is because antiferromagnetic magnons appear in the doped samples and are responsible for the additional heat conductivity, while \kappa of the pure sample represents phonon conductivity at such low temperatures. The maximum energy of the magnon is estimated to be much
more » ... than the spin-Peierls-gap energy. The result presents the first example that \kappa at very low temperatures probes the magnon transport in disorder-induced antiferromagnetic phase of spin-gap systems.
doi:10.1103/physrevb.62.r9260 fatcat:fci2zjbqr5bwnor5j6kebix2sq