Quantum spin ice: a search for gapless quantum spin liquids in pyrochlore magnets

MJP Gingras, PA McClarty - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The spin ice materials, including Ho 2 Ti 2 O 7 and Dy 2 Ti 2 O 7, are rare-earth pyrochlore
magnets which, at low temperatures, enter a constrained paramagnetic state with an …

Colloquium: Artificial spin ice: Designing and imaging magnetic frustration

C Nisoli, R Moessner, P Schiffer - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
Frustration, the presence of competing interactions, is ubiquitous in the physical sciences
and is a source of degeneracy and disorder, which in turn gives rise to new and interesting …

Spin ice, fractionalization, and topological order

C Castelnovo, R Moessner… - Annu. Rev. Condens …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The spin ice compounds Dy2Ti2O7 and Ho2Ti2O7 are highly unusual magnets that
epitomize a set of concepts of great interest in modern condensed matter physics: Their low …

Emergent magnetic monopole dynamics in macroscopically degenerate artificial spin ice

A Farhan, M Saccone, CF Petersen, S Dhuey… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Magnetic monopoles, proposed as elementary particles that act as isolated magnetic south
and north poles, have long attracted research interest as magnetic analogs to electric …

Seeing the light: Experimental signatures of emergent electromagnetism in a quantum spin ice

O Benton, O Sikora, N Shannon - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2012 - APS
The “spin-ice” state found in the rare-earth pyrochlore magnets Ho 2 Ti 2 O 7 and Dy 2 Ti 2 O
7 offers a beautiful realization of classical magnetostatics, complete with magnetic monopole …

Topological aspects of antiferromagnets

V Bonbien, F Zhuo, A Salimath, O Ly… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The long fascination that antiferromagnetic materials has exerted on the scientific community
over about a century has been entirely renewed recently with the discovery of several …

Thermal fluctuations in artificial spin ice

V Kapaklis, UB Arnalds, A Farhan… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Artificial spin ice systems have been proposed as a playground for the study of monopole-
like magnetic excitations,, similar to those observed in pyrochlore spin ice materials …

Magnetic-moment fragmentation and monopole crystallization

ME Brooks-Bartlett, ST Banks, LDC Jaubert… - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
The Coulomb phase, with its dipolar correlations and pinch-point–scattering patterns, is
central to discussions of geometrically frustrated systems, from water ice to binary and mixed …

Higgs transition from a magnetic Coulomb liquid to a ferromagnet in Yb2Ti2O7

LJ Chang, S Onoda, Y Su, YJ Kao, KD Tsuei… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
In a class of frustrated magnets known as spin ice, magnetic monopoles emerge as classical
defects and interact via the magnetic Coulomb law. With quantum-mechanical interactions …

Realisation of a frustrated 3D magnetic nanowire lattice

A May, M Hunt, A Van Den Berg, A Hejazi… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Patterning nanomagnets in three-dimensions presents a new paradigm in condensed matter
physics and allows access to a plethora of phenomena including robust spin textures …