Quantum Excitations in Quantum Spin Ice

Recent work has highlighted remarkable effects of classical thermal fluctuations in the dipolar spin ice compounds, such as “artificial magnetostatics,” manifesting as Coulombic power-law spin correlations and particles behaving as diffusive “magnetic monopoles.” In this paper, we address quantum sp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kate A. Ross, Lucile Savary, Bruce D. Gaulin, Leon Balents
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2011-10-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.1.021002