Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Intermediate magnetization state and competing orders in Dy2Ti2O7 and Ho2Ti2O7

  • R. A. Borzi,
  • F. A. Gómez Albarracín,
  • H. D. Rosales,
  • G. L. Rossini,
  • A. Steppke,
  • D. Prabhakaran,
  • A. P. Mackenzie,
  • D. C. Cabra,
  • S. A. Grigera

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12592
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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A classical Hamiltonian captures key properties of spin ice materials such as residual entropy and fractionalized excitations. Here, the authors present experimental results of the polarization transition that motivate a Hamiltonian with lattice distortions, which predicts an intermediate magnetization state and competing ground state orders.