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Quantum spin ice is an appealing proposal of a quantum spin liquid - systems where the magnetic moments of the constituent electron spins evade classical long-range order to form an exotic state that is quantum entangled and coherent over…

Quantum spin ice materials, pyrochlore magnets with competing Ising and transverse exchange interactions, have been widely discussed as candidates for a quantum spin-liquid ground state. Here, motivated by quantum chemical calculations for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-15 Owen Benton , L. D. C. Jaubert , Rajiv Singh , Jaan Oitmaa , Nic Shannon

A new model of localized highly frustrated ferromagnetism is presented: kagome spin ice. By use of analytical and Monte Carlo calculations its massive groundstate entropy is evaluated. Monte Carlo calculations are also used to explore the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Wills , R. Ballou , C. Lacroix

Frustration in magnetic interactions can give rise to disordered ground states with subtle and beautiful properties. The spin ices Ho2Ti2O7 and Dy2Ti2O7 exemplify this phenomenon, displaying a classical spin liquid state, with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-11 Mathieu Taillefumier , Owen Benton , Han Yan , L. D. C. Jaubert , Nic Shannon

The "spin ice" state found in the rare earth pyrochlore magnets Ho2Ti2O7 and Dy2Ti2O7 offers a beautiful realisation of classical magnetostatics, complete with magnetic monopole excitations. It has been suggested that in "quantum spin ice"…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 Owen Benton , Olga Sikora , Nic Shannon

One of the most remarkable examples of emergent quasi-particles, is that of the "fractionalization" of magnetic dipoles in the low energy configurations of materials known as "spin ice", into free and unconfined magnetic monopoles…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-17 Ludovic D. C. Jaubert , Peter C. W. Holdsworth

Spin ice, a peculiar thermal state of a frustrated ferromagnet on the pyrochlore lattice, has a finite entropy density and excitations carrying magnetic charge. By combining analytical arguments and Monte Carlo simulations, we show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-24 Gia-Wei Chern , Paula Mellado , O. Tchernyshyov

We present a large-$S$ study of a quantum spin ice Hamiltonian, introduced by Huang, et al., [PRL 112, 167203 (2014)], on the kagome lattice. This model involves a competition between the frustrating Ising term of classical kagome ice, a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-06 S. A. Owerre , A. A. Burkov , Roger G. Melko

Unbiased quantum Monte-Carlo simulations are performed on the nearest-neighbor spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ pyrochlore XXZ model with an antiferromagnetic longitudinal and a weak ferromagnetic transverse exchange couplings, $J$ and $J_\perp$. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-19 Yasuyuki Kato , Shigeki Onoda

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

Quantum spin liquids (QSL) have generated considerable excitement as phases of matter with emergent gauge structures and fractionalized excitations. In this context, phase transitions out of QSLs have been widely discussed as Higgs…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-15 Hyeok-Jun Yang , Nic Shannon , SungBin Lee

We study the quantum spin dynamics of a frustrated XXZ model on a pyrochlore lattice by using large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulation and stochastic analytic continuation. In the low-temperature quantum spin ice regime, we observe…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-19 Chun-Jiong Huang , Youjin Deng , Yuan Wan , Zi Yang Meng

Magnetic analogue of an isolated free electric charge, i.e., a magnet with a single north or south pole, is a long sought-after particle which remains elusive so far. In magnetically frustrated pyrochlore solids, a classical analogue of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 N. Keswani , R. Lopes , Y. Nakajima , R. Singh , N. Chauhan , T. Som , S. Kumar , A. R. Pereira , P. Das

We study a model of hard-core bosons with short-range repulsive interactions at half-filling on the kagome lattice. Using quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) numerics, we find that this model shows a continuous superfluid to insulator quantum phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Isakov , Yong Baek Kim , A. Paramekanti

Pyrochlore iridates and pyrochlore ices are two families of materials where novel quantum phenomena are intertwined with strong spin-orbit coupling, substantial electron correlation and geometrical frustration. Motivated by the puzzling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-09 Gang Chen

The low-energy physics of quantum spin ice is known to support an emergent form of quantum electrodynamics (QED), where magnetic monopoles exist and the fine structure constant is material dependent. In this article, we show how this QED is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-27 Rajah P. Nutakki , Sylvain Capponi , Ludovic D. C. Jaubert , Lode Pollet

Electrically charged particles, such as the electron, are ubiquitous. By contrast, no elementary particles with a net magnetic charge have ever been observed, despite intensive and prolonged searches. We pursue an alternative strategy,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-08 Claudio Castelnovo , Roderich Moessner , Shivaji L. Sondhi

Motivated by the observation of partial magnetic order in kagome-based magnets, we study the classical kagome Ising antiferromagnet, known as kagome spin ice, including further-neighbor interactions at zero and finite temperature. While the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-04 Eric C. Andrade , Matthias Vojta

We study the U(1) quantum spin liquid on the pyrochlore spin ice systems. For the non-Kramers doublets such as Pr$^{3+}$ and Tb$^{3+}$, we point out that the inelastic neutron scattering not only detects the low-energy gauge photon, but…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Gang Chen

The antiferromagnetic system on a rare-earth pyrochlore has been focused as a strong candidate of U(1) quantum spin liquid. Here, we study the phase transitions driven by external magnetic field and discuss the large thermal Hall effect due…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 Hyeok-Jun Yang , Hee Seung Kim , SungBin Lee