Heisenberg chain compound Sr $ _2 $ CuO $ _3 $ upon chemically substituting Sr by
increasing concentrations of Ca. As Ca occupies sites outside but near the Cu-O-Cu spin
chains, bond disorder, ie a spatial variation of the exchange interaction $ J $, is expected to
be realized in these chains. We observe that the magnetic heat conductivity ($\kappa_
{\mathrm {mag}} $) due to spinons propagating in the chains is gradually but strongly …