Anisotropy-Induced Soliton Excitation in Magnetized Strong-Rung Spin Ladders.

ABSTRACT

We report low temperature electron spin resonance experimental and theoretical studies of an archetype S=1/2 strong-rung spin ladder material (C_{5}H_{12}N)_{2}CuBr_{4}. Unexpected dynamics is detected deep in the Tomonaga-Luttinger spin liquid regime. Close to the point where the system is half-magnetized (and believed to be equivalent to a gapless easy plane chain in zero field) we observed orientation-dependent spin gap and anomalous g-factor values. Field theoretical analysis demonstrates that the observed low-energy excitation modes in magnetized (C_{5}H_{12}N)_{2}CuBr_{4} are solitonic excitations caused by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction presence.