Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

Spin slush in an extended spin ice model

  • Jeffrey G. Rau,
  • Michel J. P. Gingras

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12234
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The ultimate understanding of glassy phenomena will impact fields ranging from materials science to biophysics. Here, the authors report a heterogeneous mixture of slow relaxing spins and fast fluctuating spins, in analogy to slush as a mixture of ice and liquid water.