Abstract
Thirty-five years ago, Sanders and Walton [Phys. Rev. B 15, 1489 (1977)] proposed a method to measure the phonon-magnon interaction in antiferromagnets through thermal transport which so far has not been verified experimentally. We show that a dynamical variant of this approach allows direct extraction of the phonon-magnon equilibration time, yielding 400 mu s for the cuprate spin-ladder system Ca9La5Cu24O41. The present work provides a general method to directly address the spin-phonon interaction by means of dynamical transport experiments. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.147206
Original language | English |
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Article number | 147206 |
Pages (from-to) | 147206-1-147206-5 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Volume | 110 |
Issue number | 14 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 4-Apr-2013 |
Keywords
- THERMAL-CONDUCTIVITY
- CRYSTALS
- CUGEO3
- SR14CU24O41
- SR2CUO3
- SPINONS