Quantum spin ice: a search for gapless quantum spin liquids in pyrochlore magnets

MJP Gingras, PA McClarty - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The spin ice materials, including Ho 2 Ti 2 O 7 and Dy 2 Ti 2 O 7, are rare-earth pyrochlore
magnets which, at low temperatures, enter a constrained paramagnetic state with an …

Magnetic pyrochlore oxides

JS Gardner, MJP Gingras, JE Greedan - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2010 - APS
Within the past 20 years or so, there has occurred an explosion of interest in the magnetic
behavior of pyrochlore oxides of the type A 2 3+ B 2 4+ O 7, where A is a rare-earth ion and …

Magnetic monopoles in spin ice

C Castelnovo, R Moessner, SL Sondhi - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Electrically charged particles, such as the electron, are ubiquitous. In contrast, no
elementary particles with a net magnetic charge have ever been observed, despite intensive …

Experimental Insights into Quantum Spin Ice Physics in Dipole–Octupole Pyrochlore Magnets

EM Smith, E Lhotel, S Petit… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
We review a key subset of the experimental studies that have recently focused on cubic
pyrochlore magnets whose pseudospin-1 2 degrees of freedom have mixed dipolar and …

Quantum spin ice response to a magnetic field in the dipole-octupole pyrochlore

EM Smith, J Dudemaine, B Placke, R Schäfer… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The pyrochlore magnet Ce 2 Zr 2 O 7 has attracted much attention as a quantum spin ice
candidate whose novelty derives in part from the dipolar-octupolar nature of the Ce 3+ …

Magnetic monopole dynamics in spin ice

LDC Jaubert, PCW Holdsworth - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

study of the dipole-octupole quantum spin ice candidate

J Beare, EM Smith, J Dudemaine, R Schäfer… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The Ce 3+ pseudospin-1/2 degrees of freedom in Ce 2 Zr 2 O 7 possess both dipolar and
octupolar character which enables the possibility of novel quantum spin liquid ground states …

Spin Ice: A Test Case for Emergent Clusters in a Frustrated Magnet

T Yavors' kii, T Fennell, MJP Gingras, ST Bramwell - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
Dy 2 Ti 2 O 7 is a geometrically frustrated magnetic material with a strongly correlated spin
ice regime that extends from 1 K down to as low as 60 mK. The diffuse elastic neutron …

Magnitude of quantum effects in classical spin ices

JG Rau, MJP Gingras - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
The pyrochlore spin ice compounds Dy 2 Ti 2 O 7 and Ho 2 Ti 2 O 7 are well described by
classical Ising models down to low temperatures. Given the empirical success of this …

Ising versus Anisotropy in Frustrated Compounds as “Seen” by Polarized Neutrons

H Cao, A Gukasov, I Mirebeau, P Bonville, C Decorse… - Physical review …, 2009 - APS
We studied the field induced magnetic order in R 2 Ti 2 O 7 pyrochlore compounds with
either uniaxial (R= Ho, Tb) or planar (R= Er, Yb) anisotropy, by polarized neutron diffraction …