Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons in Cs2CuCl4
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We report on results of specific heat measurements on single crystals of the frustrated quasi-2D spin-1/2 antiferromagnet Cs_2CuCl_4 (T_N=0.595 K) in external magnetic fields B<12 T and for temperatures T>30 mK. Decreasing B from high fields leads to the closure of the field-induced gap in the magnon spectrum at a critical field B_c = 8.51 T and a magnetic phase transition is clearly seen below B_c. In the vicinity to B_c, the phase transition boundary is well described by the power-law T_c(B)\propto (B_c-B)^{1/ϕ} with the measured critical exponent ϕ\simeq 1.5. These findings are interpreted as a Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons.
5 pages, 4 figures, experiment and theory
5 pages, 4 figures, experiment and theory