An intermediate state between the kagome-ice and the fully polarized state in Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$

Authors

  • S. A. Grigera School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews KY16 9SS, UK Instituto de F?sica de L?quidos y Sistemas Biologicos, UNLP-CONICET, La Plata 1900, Argentina
  • R. Borzi Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquimicas Teoricas y Aplicadas UNLP-CONICET and Departamento de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
  • D. G. Slobinsky School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews KY16 9SS, UK
  • A. S. Gibbs School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews KY16 9SS, UK
  • R. Higashinaka Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan Univer- sity, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan.
  • Y. Maeno Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606- 8502, Japan.
  • T. S. Grigera Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquimicas Teoricas y Aplicadas UNLP-CONICET and Departamento de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 1900 La Plata, Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4279/pip.070009

Keywords:

magnetism, frustrated magnets, spin-ice

Abstract

Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ is at present the cleanest example of a spin-ice material.  Previous theoretical and experimental work on the first-order transition between the kagome-ice and the fully polarized state has been taken as a validation for the dipolar spin-ice model. Here we investigate in further depth this phase transition using ac-susceptibility and dc-magnetization, and compare this results with Monte-Carlo simulations and previous magnetization and specific heat measurements. We find signatures of an intermediate state between the kagome-ice and full polarization.  This signatures are absent in current theoretical models used to describe spin-ice materials.

Received: 17 May 2015,  Accepted: 12 June 2015; Edited by: A. Vindigni; Reviewed by: M. Perfetti, Dipartimento di Chimica, Universitá di Firenze, Italy; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4279/PIP.070009

Cite as: S A Grigera, R A Borzi, D G Slobinsky, A S Gibbs, R Higashinaka, Y Maeno, T S Grigera, Papers in Physics 7, 070009 (2015)

This paper, by S A Grigera, R A Borzi, D G Slobinsky, A S Gibbs, R Higashinaka, Y Maeno, T S Grigera, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0.
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Published

2015-06-25

How to Cite

Grigera, S. A., Borzi, R., Slobinsky, D. G., Gibbs, A. S., Higashinaka, R., Maeno, Y., & Grigera, T. S. (2015). An intermediate state between the kagome-ice and the fully polarized state in Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$. Papers in Physics, 7, 070009. https://doi.org/10.4279/pip.070009

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