Spin-Liquid State Study of Equilateral Triangle <i>S</i>=3/2 Spin Tubes Formed in CsCrF₄

Abstract

Topological effects on spin frustration in equilateral triangle S =3/2 spin tubes formed in CsCrF 4 were studied by magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity [ C ( T )], and electron spin resonance experiments. The experimental data show that there is no magnetic long-range order down to T =1.3 K, and that no spin gap due to a chiral spin structure appears. Furthermore, since the C ( T ) curve has a T -linear component, a gapless spin-liquid ground state in one-dimensional antiferromagnets, the so-called Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid, is realized. This is characteristic of equilateral triangle spin tubes with S = half-integer.