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The search for two dimensional quantum spin liquids, exotic magnetic states with an entangled ground state remaining disordered down to zero temperature, has been a great challenge in frustrated magnetism during the last decades. Recently,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-15 E. Lhotel , S. Petit , M. Ciomaga Hatnean , J. Ollivier , H. Mutka , E. Ressouche , M. R. Lees , G. Balakrishnan

A pinch point singularity in the structure factor characterizes an important class of condensed matter that is a counterpoint to the paradigm of broken symmetry. This class includes water ice, charge ice and spin ice. Of these, dipolar spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-16 Mikael Twengström , Patrik Henelius , Steven T. Bramwell

Spin ice illustrates many unusual magnetic properties, including zero point entropy, emergent monopoles and a quasi liquid-gas transition. To reveal the quantum spin dynamics that underpin these phenomena is an experimental challenge. Here…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-28 L. Bovo , J. A. Bloxsom , D. Prabhakaran , G. Aeppli , S. T. Bramwell

Determining the fate of the Pauling entropy in the classical spin ice material Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ with respect to the third law of thermodynamics has become an important test case for understanding the existence and stability of ice-rule…

Geometric frustration usually arises in systems that comprise magnetic moments (spins) which reside on the sites of a lattice made up of elementary triangular or tetrahedral units and which interact via antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbor…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-17 Michel J. P. Gingras

The square ice is a two-dimensional spin liquid hosting a Coulomb phase physics. When constrained under specific boundary conditions, the so-called domain-wall boundary conditions, a phase separation occurs that leads to the formation of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-26 Johann Coraux , Nicolas Rougemaille

We examine the statistical mechanics of spin-ice materials with a [100] magnetic field. We show that the approach to saturated magnetisation is, in the low-temperature limit, an example of a 3D Kasteleyn transition, which is topological in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-03-03 Ludovic D. C. Jaubert , J. T. Chalker , Peter C. W. Holdsworth , R. Moessner

Spin ice presents a typical example of classical spin liquid, where conserved magnetic fluxes emerge from microscopic spin degrees of freedom. In this letter, we investigate the effect of perturbation by magnetic charge disorder in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-17 Masaki Kato , Hiroyasu Matsuura , Masafumi Udagawa , Masao Ogata

A promising route to realize entangled magnetic states combines geometrical frustration with quantum-tunneling effects. Spin-ice materials are canonical examples of frustration, and Ising spins in a transverse magnetic field are the…

We report the specific heat of single crystals of the spin ice compound Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ at temperatures down to 100 mK in the so-called Kagome ice state. In our previous paper, we showed the anisotropic release of residual entropy in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Ryuji Higashinaka , Hideto Fukazawa , Kazuhiko , Yoshiteru Maeno

Topological phases of spin liquids with constrained disorder can host a kinetics of fractionalized excitations. However, spin-liquid phases with distinct kinetic regimes have proven difficult to observe experimentally. Here we present a…

The spin ice compounds {\dys} and {\holm} are highly unusual magnets which epitomize a set of concepts of great interest in modern condensed matter physics: their low-energy physics exhibits an emergent gauge field and their excitations are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-01 C. Castelnovo , R. Moessner , S. L. Sondhi

We have investigated the kagom\'{e} ice behavior of the dipolar spin-ice compound Dy_{2}Ti_{2}O_{7} in magnetic field along a [111] direction using neutron scattering and Monte Carlo simulations. The spin correlations show that the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Tabata , H. Kadowaki , K. Matsuhira , Z. Hiroi , N. Aso , E. Ressouche , B. Fak

The complexity embedded in condensed matter fertilizes the discovery of new states of matter, enriched by ingredients like frustration. Illustrating examples in magnetic systems are Kitaev spin liquids, skyrmions phases, or spin ices. These…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-10 E. Lefrançois , V. Cathelin , E. Lhotel , J. Robert , P. Lejay , C. V. Colin , B. Canals , F. Damay , J. Ollivier , B. Fåk , L. C. Chapon , R. Ballou , V. Simonet

We study the three-dimensional Kasteleyn transition in both nearest neighbours and dipolar spin ice models using an algorithm that conserves the number of excitations. We first limit the interactions range to nearest neighbours to test the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-04 M. L. Baez , R. A. Borzi

Fractional excitations provide a key to identifying sought-after topological quantum spin liquid states in realistic materials. Their single-particle dynamics already presents a challenging many-body problem on account of the coupling to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-14 Masafumi Udagawa , Roderich Moessner

We study the nearest-neighbor spin-ice model subjected to a magnetic field applied along the global [111] and [110] directions, focusing on the role of sample geometry in stabilizing topological phase transitions. While no Kasteleyn…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-30 R. A. Borzi , E. S. Loscar , S. A. Grigera

We study the quantum dynamics of fractional excitations in quantum spin ice. We focus on the density of states in the two-monopole sector, $\rho(\omega)$, as this can be connected to the wavevector-integrated dynamical structure factor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Masafumi Udagawa , Roderich Moessner

Gauge theories are powerful tools in theoretical physics, allowing complex phenomena to be reduced to simple principles, and are used in both high-energy and condensed matter physics. In the latter context, gauge theories are becoming…

Artificial spin ices have transcended their origins in frustrated rare-earth pyrochlores to become a versatile platform for engineering exotic states of matter. Across diverse implementations, from nanomagnets and superconducting vortices…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-01 Renaud Baillou , Matthew Terkel , Cristiano Nisoli , Pietro Tierno