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Proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) T1 in a single crystal of copper formiate tetradeuterate is used to study the correlated Cu2+ spin dynamics and to derive the temperature behavior of the in-plane magnetic correlation length. The results are compared with the predictions of recent theoretical models for the spin dynamics in planar quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnets in a wide temperature range (from the Néel temperature up to a reduced temperatureT/J ∼ 1.4, withJ in-plane exchange integral). In particular, it is shown that, in contrast to the predictions of the nonlinear σ model, no crossover to a quantum critical regime occurs and that the experimental findings are well reproduced by deriving the NMR relaxation rate in the framework of the standard mode-mode coupling theory.
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Carretta, P., Ciabattoni, T., Cuccoli, A. et al. Correlated spin dynamics in 2-D quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnets from NMR relaxation in copper formiate tetradeuterate. Appl. Magn. Reson. 19, 391–398 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03162381
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