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It has been proposed recently \cite{son} that excitations in Spin Ice can be of the form of magnetic monopoles that does not obey the Dirac Quantization Condition. It is also well known \cite{rj} that the above scenario leads to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-01-24 Subir Ghosh

We study the low-temperature behaviour of spin ice when uniaxial pressure induces a tetragonal distortion. There is a phase transition between a Coulomb liquid and a fully magnetised phase. Unusually, it combines features of discontinuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-07 Ludovic D. C. Jaubert , J. T. Chalker , Peter C. W. Holdsworth , R. Moessner

Spin crossover materials contain metal ions that can access two spin-states: one low-spin (LS), the other high-spin (HS). We propose that frustrated elastic interactions can give rise to spin-state ices -- phases of matter without…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-09 Jace Cruddas , B. J. Powell

Frustration in magnetic materials arising from competing exchange interactions can prevent the system from adopting long-range magnetic order and can instead lead to a diverse range of novel quantum and topological states with exotic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-16 J. Khatua , B. Sana , A. Zorko , M. Gomilšek , K. Sethupathi M. S. Ramachandra Rao , M. Baenitz , B. Schmidt , P. Khuntia

The intrinsic noncollinear spin patterns in rare-earth pyrochlore are physically interesting, hosting many emergent properties, e.g. spin ice and monopole-type excitation. Recently, the magnetic monopole excitation of spin ice systems was…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-18 Lin Lin , Y. L. Xie , J. -J. Wen , Shuai Dong , Z. B. Yan , J. -M. Liu

At low temperatures, spin ice is populated by a finite density of magnetic monopoles-pointlike topological defects with a mutual magnetic Coulomb interaction. We discuss the properties of the resulting magnetic Coulomb liquid in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-07 Claudio Castelnovo , Roderich Moessner , Shivaji Sondhi

The spin ice compound Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ is well-known to realise a three-dimensional Coulomb spin liquid with magnetically charged monopole excitations. Its fate at low temperatures, however, remains an intriguing open question. Based on a…

Condensed matter in the low temperature limit reveals much exotic physics associated with unusual orders and excitations, examples ranging from helium superfluidity to magnetic monopoles in spin ice. The far-from-equilibrium physics of such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-03 C. Paulsen , M. J. Jackson , E. Lhotel , B. Canals , D. Prabhakaran , K. Matsuhira , S. R. Giblin , S. T. Bramwell

We study single crystals of Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ and Ho$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ under magnetic field and stress applied along their [001] direction. We find that many of the features that the emergent gauge field of spin ice confers to the macroscopic…

Magnetic monopole unpairing as a function of external magnetic fields is presented as a fingerprint of this emergent quasiparticles freedom in a two-dimensional artificial spin ice system. Such freedom, required for example for further…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 D. G. Duarte , L. B. de Oliveira , F. S. Nascimento , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira , 1 , C. I. L. de Araujo

The low-temperature picture of dipolar spin ice in terms of the Coulomb fluid of its fractionalised magnetic monopole excitations has allowed analytic and conceptual progress far beyond its original microscopic spin description. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-17 Vojtěch Kaiser , Jonathan Bloxsom , Laura Bovo , Steven T. Bramwell , Peter C. W. Holdsworth , Roderich Moessner

Magnetic monopoles, elusive in high-energy physics, have been realised as emergent quasiparticles in solid-state systems, where their unique properties hold promise for novel spintronic applications. Magnetic monopoles have been invoked in…

Topological magnets host two sets of gauge fields: that of native Maxwell electromagnetism, thanks to the magnetic dipole moment of its constituent microscopic moments; and that of the emergent gauge theory describing the topological phase.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-14 Chris R. Laumann , Roderich Moessner

Frustration in magnetic systems is fertile ground for complex behaviour, including unconventional ground states with emergent symmetries, topological properties, and exotic excitations. A canonical example is the emergence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-02 M. J. Pearce , K. Götze , A. Szabó , T. S. Sikkenk , M. R. Lees , A. T. Boothroyd , D. Prabhakaran , C. Castelnovo , P. A. Goddard

We study an artificial spin ice system consisting of two identical layers separated by a height offset $h$. For small separation, the layers are shown to attract each other, provided the whole system is in the ground state. Such an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Fabio S. Nascimento , Afranio R. Pereira , Winder A. Moura-Melo

Spin glasses occupy a unique place in condensed matter: they freeze collectively while remaining struc-turally disordered, and they exhibit slow, history-dependent dynamics that reflect an exceptionally rug-ged free-energy landscape. This…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-25 Naeimeh Tahriri , Vahid Mahdikhah , Jahanfar Abouie , Daryoosh Vashaee

The spin ice compound Dy_2Ti_2O_7 stands out as the first topological magnet in three dimensions, with its tell-tale emergent fractionalized magnetic monopole excitations. Its real-time dynamical properties have been an enigma from the very…

Magnetic monopoles are hypothesised elementary particles connected by Dirac strings that behave like infinitely thin solenoids. Despite decades of searches, free magnetic monopoles and their Dirac strings have eluded experimental detection,…

Proceeding from the more general to the more concrete, we propose an equilibrium field theory describing spin ice systems in terms of topological charges and magnetic monopoles. We show that for a spin ice on a graph, the entropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 Cristiano Nisoli

A magnetic monopole in spin ice is a novel quasiparticle excitation in condensed matter physics, and we found that the ac frequency dependent magnetic susceptibility $\chi(\omega)$ in the two-dimensional (2D) spin ice (so-called kagom\'{e}…