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 …

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 …

Magnetic Coulomb Phase in the Spin Ice Ho2Ti2O7

T Fennell, PP Deen, AR Wildes, K Schmalzl… - Science, 2009 - science.org
Spin-ice materials are magnetic substances in which the spin directions map onto hydrogen
positions in water ice. Their low-temperature magnetic state has been predicted to be a …

Quantum excitations in quantum spin ice

KA Ross, L Savary, BD Gaulin, L Balents - Physical Review X, 2011 - APS
Recent work has highlighted remarkable effects of classical thermal fluctuations in the
dipolar spin ice<? format?> compounds, such as “artificial magnetostatics,” manifesting as …

Case for a Quantum Spin Liquid Ground State in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore

EM Smith, O Benton, DR Yahne, B Placke, R Schäfer… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
The Ce 3+ pseudospin-1/2 degrees of freedom in the pyrochlore magnet Ce 2 Zr 2 O 7 are
known to possess dipole-octupole character, making it a candidate for novel quantum spin …

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+ …

Lightly stuffed pyrochlore structure of single-crystalline YbTiO grown by the optical floating zone technique

KA Ross, T Proffen, HA Dabkowska, JA Quilliam… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
Recent neutron scattering and specific heat studies on the pyrochlore Yb 2 Ti 2 O 7 have
revealed variations in its magnetic behavior below 265 mK. In the best samples, a sharp …

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 …

High-resolution neutron spectroscopy using backscattering and neutron spin-echo spectrometers in soft and hard condensed matter

JS Gardner, G Ehlers, A Faraone… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The instruments best suited to performing high-energy-resolution neutron spectroscopy are
spin-echo spectrometers and backscattering spectrometers. The development of these …