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 …

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 …

The history of spin ice

ST Bramwell, MJ Harris - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
This review is a study of how the idea of spin ice has evolved over the years, with a focus on
the scientific questions that have come to define the subject. Since our initial discovery of …

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 …

Dynamically Induced Frustration as a Route to a Quantum Spin Ice State in <?format ?>via Virtual Crystal Field Excitations and Quantum Many-Body Effects

HR Molavian, MJP Gingras, B Canals - Physical review letters, 2007 - APS
The Tb 2 Ti 2 O 7 pyrochlore magnetic material is attracting much attention for its spin liquid
state, failing to develop long-range order down to 50 mK despite a Curie-Weiss temperature …

Quantum ice: a quantum Monte Carlo study

N Shannon, O Sikora, F Pollmann, K Penc, P Fulde - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
Ice states, in which frustrated interactions lead to a macroscopic ground-state degeneracy,
occur in water ice, in problems of frustrated charge order on the pyrochlore lattice, and in the …

Vindication of as a Model Exchange Quantum Spin Ice

R Applegate, NR Hayre, RRP Singh, T Lin, AGR Day… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
We use numerical linked-cluster expansions to compute the specific heat C (T) and entropy
S (T) of a quantum spin ice Hamiltonian for Yb 2 Ti 2 O 7 using anisotropic exchange …

Magic in generalized Rokhsar-Kivelson wavefunctions

PS Tarabunga, C Castelnovo - Quantum, 2024 - quantum-journal.org
Magic is a property of a quantum state that characterizes its deviation from a stabilizer state,
serving as a useful resource for achieving universal quantum computation eg, within …

Emergent high-Tc ferroelectric ordering of strongly correlated and frustrated protons in a heteroepitaxial ice film

T Sugimoto, N Aiga, Y Otsuki, K Watanabe… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Materials containing strong correlation and frustration have the potential to respond to
external perturbations in an unusual way. In the case of common water ice, protons in the …

Pinch points and Kasteleyn transitions in kagome ice

T Fennell, ST Bramwell, DF McMorrow, P Manuel… - Nature Physics, 2007 - nature.com
Complex disordered states—from liquids and glasses to exotic quantum matter—are
ubiquitous in nature. Their key properties include finite entropy, power-law correlations and …