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量子自旋冰:在烧绿石磁体中寻找无隙量子自旋液体

Quantum Spin Ice: A Search for Gapless Quantum Spin Liquids in Pyrochlore Magnets

Michel J. P. Gingras, Paul A. McClarty

摘要:

自旋冰材料,包括Ho2Ti2O7和Dy2Ti2O7,是稀土烧绿石磁体,其在低温下进入具有紧急规范自由度的约束顺磁状态。值得注意的是,自旋冰提供了极少数实验实现的分馏例子之一,因为它们的基本激发可以被视为磁单极子,并且在某些温度范围内,自旋冰材料最好被描述为这些新兴电荷的液体。在量子涨落存在的情况下,原则上可以得到一种量子自旋液体,这种液体是从经典的自旋冰态演化而来的,其特征是出现类似光子的激发。在经典自旋冰中,激发类似于静电荷,而在量子自旋液体中,这些电荷通过动态和涌现的电磁场相互作用。在这篇综述中,我们描述了这种量子自旋冰研究的最新进展,重点是自旋液体现象和可能发现这种相的材料种类。

英文摘要:

The spin ice materials, including Ho2Ti2O7 and Dy2Ti2O7, are rare earth pyrochlore magnets which, at low temperatures, enter a constrained paramagnetic state with an emergent gauge freedom. Remarkably, the spin ices provide one of very few experimentally realised examples of fractionalization because their elementary excitations can be regarded as magnetic monopoles and, over some temperature range, the spin ice materials are best described as liquids of these emergent charges. In the presence of quantum fluctuations, one can obtain, in principle, a quantum spin liquid descended from the classical spin ice state characterised by emergent photon-like excitations. Whereas in classical spin ices the excitations are akin to electrostatic charges, in the quantum spin liquid these charges interact through a dynamic and emergent electromagnetic field. In this review, we describe the latest developments in the study of such a quantum spin ice, focussing on the spin liquid phenomenology and the kinds of materials where such a phase might be found.

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