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Yb_2Ti_2O_7中从磁性库仑液体到铁磁体的Higgs跃迁

Higgs transition from a magnetic Coulomb liquid to a ferromagnet in Yb_2Ti_2O_7

Lieh-Jeng Chang, Shigeki Onoda, Yixi Su, Ying-Jer Kao, Ku-Ding Tsuei, Yukio Yasui, Kazuhisa Kakurai, Martin Richard Lees

摘要:

在一类被称为自旋冰的受抑磁体中,磁单极子作为经典缺陷出现,并通过磁库仑定律相互作用。在量子力学相互作用下,这些磁荷由分馏的玻色子准粒子(自旋子)携带,自旋子可以通过希格斯机制通过一级跃迁进行玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚。在这里,我们报告的证据希格斯过渡从磁性库仑液体铁磁体在单晶Yb 2 Ti 2 O 7。极化中子散射实验表明,在T_C ~ 0.21 K以下,[111]棒扩散散射和夹点特征突然被抑制,此时出现磁布拉格峰和完全去极化的中子自旋,并伴有热滞现象,表明发生了一级铁磁相变。我们的结果是在量子自旋冰模型的基础上解释的,其高温相有效地描述为磁性库仑液体,而基态显示出近共线的铁磁性与带隙自旋激发。

英文摘要:

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, these magnetic charges are carried by fractionalised bosonic quasi-particles, spinons, which can undergo Bose-Einstein condensation through a first-order transition via the Higgs mechanism. Here, we report evidence of a Higgs transition from a magnetic Coulomb liquid to a ferromagnet in single-crystal Yb2Ti2O7. Polarised neutron-scattering experiments show that the diffuse [111]-rod scattering and pinch-point features which develop on cooling are suddenly suppressed below T_C ~ 0.21 K, where magnetic Bragg peaks and a full depolarisation of the neutron spins are observed with thermal hysteresis, indicating a first-order ferromagnetic transition. Our results are explained on the basis of a quantum spin-ice model, whose high-temperature phase is effectively described as a magnetic Coulomb liquid, while the ground state shows a nearly collinear ferromagnetism with gapped spin excitations.

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