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

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 experiment...

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Main Authors: Owen Benton, L.D.C. Jaubert, Han Yan, Nic Shannon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11572