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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

We show that the highly frustrated transverse-field Ising model on the three-dimensional pyrochlore lattice realizes a first-order phase transition without symmetry breaking between the low-field Coulomb quantum spin liquid and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-23 J. Roechner , L. Balents , K. P. Schmidt

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…

Micromagnetic properties of monopoles in artificial kagome spin ice systems are investigated using numerical simulations. We show that micromagnetics brings additional complexity into the physics of these monopoles that is, by essence,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 N. Rougemaille , F. Montaigne , B. Canals , M. Hehn , H. Riahi , D. Lacour , J. -C. Toussaint

Ising models on a pyrochlore oxide lattice are usually associated with spin ice materials and "magnetic monopoles". Ever more often effects connecting magnetic and elastic degrees of freedom are reported on these and other related…

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Magnetic and electronic states of an Ising-spin Kondo lattice model on a kagome lattice are investigated by a Monte Carlo simulation. In addition to the conventional ferromagnetic and ferrimagnetic orders, we show that this model exhibits…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-18 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Yukitoshi Motome

Magnetic pyrochlores with non-Kramers rare-earth ions provide a platform for exploring emergent gauge physics and quantum spin-ice behavior, yet the influence of structural disorder on their ground states remains insufficiently understood.…

Artificial spin ices are engineered arrays of dipolarly coupled nanobar magnets. They enable direct investigations of fascinating collective phenomena from their diverse microstates. However, experimental access to ground states in the…

Thermodynamic quantities and correlation functions (CFs) of the classical antiferromagnet on the kagom\'e lattice are studied for the exactly solvable infinite-component spin-vector model, D \to \infty. In this limit, the critical coupling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. A. Garanin , Benjamin Canals

The results of extensive Monte Carlo simulations of classical spins on the two-dimensional kagome lattice with only dipolar interactions are presented. In addition to revealing the six-fold degenerate ground state, the nature of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-01 M. S. Holden , M. L. Plumer , I. Saika-Voivod , B. W. Southern

Spin liquids are exotic phases of quantum matter challenging Landau's paradigm of symmetry-breaking phase transitions. Despite strong exchange interactions, spins do not order or freeze down to zero temperature. While well-established for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-22 P. Khuntia , M. Velazquez , Q. Barthélemy , F. Bert , E. Kermarrec , A. Legros , B. Bernu , L. Messio , A. Zorko , P. Mendels

There is a growing interest in the $U(1)$ Coulomb liquid in both quantum materials in pyrochlore ice and cluster Mott insulators and cold atom systems. We explore a paired hardcore boson model on a pyrochlore lattice. This model is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-04 Chun-Jiong Huang , Changle Liu , Ziyang Meng , Yue Yu , Youjin Deng , Gang Chen

Quantum spin liquids form a novel class of matter where, despite the existence of strong exchange interactions, spins do not order down to the lowest measured temperature. Typically, these occur in lattices that act to frustrate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-05 M. R. Norman

The effect of a magnetic field on a gapped quantum magnet is described within the framework of the Quantum Dimer Model. A minimal model describing the proliferation of itinerant spinons above a critical field is proposed and investigated by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-09-16 A. Ralko , F. Becca , D. Poilblanc

The pyrochlore materials have long been predicted to harbor a quantum spin liquid, an intrinsic long-range-entangled state supporting fractionalized excitations. Existing pyrochlore experiments, on the other hand, have discovered several…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-19 Chunxiao Liu , Gábor B. Halász , Leon Balents

We point out the experimental relevance and the detection scheme of symmetry enriched U(1) quantum spin liquids (QSLs) outside the perturbative spin-ice regime. Recent experiments on Ce-based pyrochlore QSL materials suggest that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-25 Xu-Ping Yao , Yao Dong Li , Gang Chen

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

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 propose that in a certain class of magnetic materials, known as non-Kramers 'spin ice,' disorder induces quantum entanglement. Instead of driving glassy behavior, disorder provokes quantum superpositions of spins throughout the system,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-28 Lucile Savary , Leon Balents

There is growing evidence from both experiment and numerical studies that low half-odd integer quantum spins on a kagome lattice with predominant antiferromagnetic near neighbor interactions do not order magnetically or break lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Ryu , O. I. Motrunich , J. Alicea , Matthew P. A. Fisher