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Phys. Rev. B 56, 13681–13684 (1997)

Nuclear relaxation in the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic chain compound Sr2CuO3: Comparison between theories and experiments

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M. Takigawa
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598

O. A. Starykh
Department of Physics, University of Florida, P.O. Box 118440, Gainesville, Florida 32611

A. W. Sandvik
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801

R. R. P. Singh
Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616

Received 16 June 1997; published in the issue dated 1 December 1997

The NMR relaxation data on Sr2CuO3 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 4612 (1996)] are reexamined and compared with the analytic theory of the dynamic susceptibility in the S=1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain including multiplicative logarithmic corrections [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 539 (1997)]. Comparisons of the spin-lattice and the Gaussian spin-echo decay rates (1/T1 and 1/T2G) and their ratio all show good quantitative agreement. Our results demonstrate the importance of the logarithmic corrections in the analysis of experimental data for quasi-one-dimensional systems and indicate that the dynamics of Sr2CuO3 is well described by an S=1/2 one-dimensional Heisenberg model with a nearest-neighbor exchange.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.56.13681
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.56.13681
PACS:
75.10.Jm, 75.40.Gb, 76.60.Es, 76.60.Lz