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量子自旋冰中的量子激发

Quantum Excitations in Quantum Spin Ice

Kate A. Ross, Lucile Savary, Bruce D. Gaulin, Leon Balents

摘要:

最近的工作突出了偶极自旋冰化合物中经典热涨落的显著影响,如“人工静磁”,表现为库仑幂律自旋相关性和表现为扩散“磁单极子”的粒子。在本文中,我们解决量子自旋冰,给出了一个统一的框架的磁性的一大类的烧绿石结构的磁性化合物的研究,特别是讨论Yb2Ti2O7和提取其全套的哈密顿参数从高场非弹性中子散射实验。结果表明,Yb_2Ti_2O_7中的涨落很强,在低场下,其哈密顿量可能支持库仑“量子自旋液体“基态,在大场下,其哈密顿量可能支持一个不寻常的量子临界点.这似乎与先前在Yb2Ti2O7上的实验中令人困惑的特征一致。因此,Yb2Ti2O7是第一个量子自旋液体候选者,其中哈密顿量是定量已知的。

英文摘要:

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 field and host an unusual quantum critical point at larger fields. This appears consistent with puzzling features in prior experiments on Yb2Ti2O7. Thus Yb2Ti2O7 is the first quantum spin liquid candidate in which the Hamiltonian is quantitatively known.

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