Reply to "Comment on: 'Case for a U(1)$_\pi$ Quantum Spin Liquid Ground State in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore $\mathrm{Ce}_2\mathrm{Zr}_2\mathrm{O}_7$' "
Abstract
In his comment [arXiv:2209.03235], S. W. Lovesey argues that our analysis of neutron scattering experiments performed on CeZrO is invalid. Lovesey argues that we have not properly accounted for the higher-order multipolar contributions to the magnetic scattering and that our use of pseudospin- operators to describe the scattering is inappropriate. In this reply, we show that the multipolar corrections discussed by Lovesey only become significant at scattering wavevectors exceeding those accessed in our experiments. This in no way contradicts or undermines our work, which never claimed a direct observation of scattering from higher-order multipoles. We further show that Lovesey's objections to our use of pseudospins are unfounded, and that the pseudospin operators are able to describe all magnetic scattering processes at the energy scale of our experiments, far below the crystal field gap. Finally, we comment on certain assumptions in Lovesey's calculations of the scattering amplitude which are inconsistent with experiment.
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@article{arxiv.2209.14956,
title = {Reply to "Comment on: 'Case for a U(1)$_\pi$ Quantum Spin Liquid Ground State in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore $\mathrm{Ce}_2\mathrm{Zr}_2\mathrm{O}_7$' "},
author = {E. M. Smith and O. Benton and D. R. Yahne and B. Placke and R. Schäfer and J. Gaudet and J. Dudemaine and A. Fitterman and J. Beare and A. R. Wildes and S. Bhattacharya and T. DeLazzer and C. R. C. Buhariwalla and N. P. Butch and R. Movshovich and J. D. Garrett and C. A. Marjerrison and J. P. Clancy and E. Kermarrec and G. M. Luke and A. D. Bianchi and K. A. Ross and B. D. Gaulin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.14956},
year = {2022}
}
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6 pages, 1 figure