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 ground-state selection of quantum XY pyrochlores

AM Hallas, J Gaudet, BD Gaulin - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Extensive experimental investigations of the magnetic structures and excitations in the XY
pyrochlores have been carried out over the past decade. Three families of XY pyrochlores …

Seeing the light: Experimental signatures of emergent electromagnetism in a quantum spin ice

O Benton, O Sikora, N Shannon - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2012 - APS
The “spin-ice” state found in the rare-earth pyrochlore magnets Ho 2 Ti 2 O 7 and Dy 2 Ti 2 O
7 offers a beautiful realization of classical magnetostatics, complete with magnetic monopole …

Magnetic-moment fragmentation and monopole crystallization

ME Brooks-Bartlett, ST Banks, LDC Jaubert… - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
The Coulomb phase, with its dipolar correlations and pinch-point–scattering patterns, is
central to discussions of geometrically frustrated systems, from water ice to binary and mixed …

[HTML][HTML] Higgs transition from a magnetic Coulomb liquid to a ferromagnet in Yb2Ti2O7

LJ Chang, S Onoda, Y Su, YJ Kao, KD Tsuei… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
In a class of frustrated magnets known as spin ice, magnetic monopoles emerge as classical
defects and interact via the magnetic Coulomb law. With quantum-mechanical interactions …

Theory of multiple-phase competition in pyrochlore magnets with anisotropic exchange with application to , and

H Yan, O Benton, L Jaubert, N Shannon - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The family of magnetic rare-earth pyrochlore oxides R 2 M 2 O 7 plays host to a diverse
array of exotic phenomena, driven by the interplay between geometrical frustration and spin …

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 …

Impact of stoichiometry of on its physical properties

KE Arpino, BA Trump, AO Scheie, TM McQueen… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
A series of Yb 2+ x Ti 2− x O 7− δ doped samples demonstrates the effects of off-
stoichiometry on Yb 2 Ti 2 O 7's structure, properties, and magnetic ground state via x-ray …

Vindication of as a Model Exchange Quantum Spin Ice

R Applegate, NR Hayre, RRP Singh, T Lin, AGR Day… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
We use numerical linked-cluster expansions to compute the specific heat C (T) and entropy
S (T) of a quantum spin ice Hamiltonian for Yb 2 Ti 2 O 7 using anisotropic exchange …

Are Multiphase Competition and Order by Disorder the Keys to Understanding ?

LDC Jaubert, O Benton, JG Rau, J Oitmaa, RRP Singh… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
If magnetic frustration is most commonly known for undermining long-range order, as
famously illustrated by spin liquids, the ability of matter to develop new collective …