Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Emergent order in the kagome Ising magnet Dy3Mg2Sb3O14

  • Joseph A. M. Paddison,
  • Harapan S. Ong,
  • James O. Hamp,
  • Paromita Mukherjee,
  • Xiaojian Bai,
  • Matthew G. Tucker,
  • Nicholas P. Butch,
  • Claudio Castelnovo,
  • Martin Mourigal,
  • S. E. Dutton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13842
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Frustration in lattices of interacting spins can lead to rich and exotic physics, such as fractionalized excitations and emergent order. Here, the authors demonstrate a low-temperature transition from a disordered spin-ice-like phase to an emergent charge ordered phase in the bulk kagome Ising magnet Dy3Mg2Sb3O14.