# Spin relaxation in Cs$_2$CuCl$_{4-x}$Br$_x$

## TL;DR

This study investigates how substituting bromine for chlorine in Cs$_2$CuCl$_{4-x}$Br$_x$ affects spin relaxation and anisotropic exchange interactions, using ESR to analyze the evolution of magnetic properties in this frustrated quantum-spin system.

## Contribution

It provides detailed ESR analysis of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions and their dependence on Br substitution, revealing site selectivity and magnetic frustration effects.

## Key findings

- Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction dominates ESR linewidth.
- Bromine substitution influences exchange interactions and magnetic frustration.
- Results support site-selective Br substitution based on lattice and magnetic data.

## Abstract

The quantum-spin S = 1=2 chain system Cs$_2$CuCl$_4$ is of high interest due to competing anti-ferromagnetic intra-chain J and inter-chain exchange J' interactions and represents a paramount example for Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons [R. Coldea et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 137202 (2002)]. Substitution of chlorine by bromine allows tuning the competing exchange interactions and corresponding magnetic frustration. Here we report on electron spin resonance (ESR) in single crystals of Cs$_2$CuCl$_{4-x}$Br$_x$ with the aim to analyze the evolution of anisotropic exchange contributions. The main source of the ESR linewidth is attributed to the uniform Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. The vector components of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction are determined from the angular dependence of the ESR spectra using a high-temperature approximation. The obtained results support the site selectivity of the Br substitution suggested from the evolution of lattice parameters and magnetic susceptibility dependent on the Br concentration.