Quantum Excitations in Quantum Spin Ice

被引：431

作者：

Ross, Kate A. ^{[2
]}

Savary, Lucile ^{[3
]}

Gaulin, Bruce D. ^{[2
,4
,5
]}

Balents, Leon ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Kavli Inst Theoret Phys, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA

[2] McMaster Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada

[3] Ecole Normale Super Lyon, F-69364 Lyon 07, France

[4] Canadian Inst Adv Res, Toronto, ON M5G 1Z8, Canada

[5] McMaster Univ, Brockhouse Inst Mat Res, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW X | 2011年 / 1卷 / 02期

基金：

加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;

关键词：

PYROCHLORE ANTIFERROMAGNET;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevX.1.021002

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

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 spin ice, giving a unifying framework for the study of magnetism of a large class of magnetic compounds with the pyrochlore structure, and, in particular, discuss Yb2Ti2O7, and extract its full set of Hamiltonian parameters from high-field inelastic neutron scattering experiments. We show that fluctuations in Yb2Ti2O7 are strong, and that the Hamiltonian may support a Coulombic "quantum spin liquid" ground state in low magnetic fields and host an unusual quantum critical point at larger fields. This appears consistent with puzzling features seen in prior experiments on Yb2Ti2O7. Thus, Yb2Ti2O7 is the first quantum spin liquid candidate for which the Hamiltonian is quantitatively known.

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