Nature Communications (May 2016)

A spin-liquid with pinch-line singularities on the pyrochlore lattice

  • Owen Benton,
  • L.D.C. Jaubert,
  • Han Yan,
  • Nic Shannon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11572
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Neutron scattering measurements of spin-ice materials contain signature pinch-point singularities, demonstrating the existence of an emergent electromagnetic gauge field. Here, the authors propose a system in which correlations manifest in pinch lines, which may have already been observed experimentally.