  Results of high frequency (60-315 GHz) studies of ESR in CuGeO3 single
crystals containing 0.9% of Mn impurity are reported. Quantitative EPR line
shape analysis allowed concluding that low temperature magnetic susceptibility
for T <40 K diverges following power law with the critical exponent 0.81 and
therefore manifests onset of a quantum critical (QC) regime. We argue that
transition into Griffiths phase occurs at TG~40 K and disorder produced by Mn
impurity in quantum spin chains of CuGeO3 may lead to co-existence of the QC
regime and spin-Peierls dimerisation.
