Claudio Castelnovo, Roderich Moessner and Shivaji Sondhi- Magnetic Monopoles and Spin Ice
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Magnetic Monopoles and Spin Ice
Claudio Castelnovo (Oxford)
Roderich Moessner (MPI-Dresden)
Shivaji Sondhi (Princeton)
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Outline
Spin Ice
The dipolar puzzle
Dumbbells
Monopoles
Experiments A second gauge field
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The pyrochlore lattice
FCC lattice with a foursite basis: uptetrahedra sit on theBravais lattice
If we look along the
[111] direction,
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we get a set of
interleavedKagome andtriangular planes
These are found in two
large families of materialsthat take their namesfrom two minerals:1) the pyrochlores A
2
B2
O72) the spinels AB2O4
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Spin Ice
The pyrochlores Ho2Ti2O7 and Dy2Ti2O7 do not order tothe lowest temperatures. (Bramwell + Harris, 1997)
Instead they exhibit a macroscopic low temperatureentropy (Ramirez et al, 1999)
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Simplest explanation of this behavior is that we have an
Ising antiferromagnet. However, the local easy axes arethe [111] axes so we postulate
Anisotropy FM exchange Pseudospins:in and out
The two in and two out ruleis precisely one of theBernal-Fowler rules for iceand thus we can take overPaulings celebrated
estimate for the entropy ofice S=(1/2) Log(3/2)
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Why does spin ice obey the ice rules?
The ferromagnetic exchange actually arises from thedipolar interaction ferromagnetic when restricted toeasy axes and nearest neighbor sites.
But then why is the rest of the dipolar interactioninnocuous? (Siddarthan & Shastry, 1999; Gingras andco-workers, 2000-)
ANSWER The ice rules generate dipolar correlationsamong the spins these are entirely consistent with thelong ranged piece of the dipolar coupling!
Isakov, Moessner and Sondhi, 2005
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Dipolar spin ice (contd)
More specifically could establish a
THEOREM There exists a model dipole interaction with the
same long distance asymptotics which has exactly andonly the ice rule ground states.
Now we can show this much more simply by a related butdifferent route.
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A step back: the magnetization process
Moessner and Sondhi, 2003; Isakov, Raman, Moessner and Sondhi, 2004
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A Second Gauge Field
Despite the lack of a phase transition there is a
correlation length (thermal monopole separation) thatdiverges as T->0. This is associated with the emergenceof a second gauge field that characterizes the statisticalproperties of the ground state manifold.
To understand this think about the ground stateconstraint, which can be turned into a conservation law.This can be done for the O(N) case with vectors spins
replacing Ising pseudospins:
(S. Isakov, K. Gregor, R. Moessner and S. L. Sondhi, 2004)Also Henley, Hermele et al; Youngblood and Axe
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Conservation law
Orient bonds on the dual diamond lattice from one sublattice to the other
Define N vector fields on each bond
on each tetrahedron in grounds states, implies
at each dual site
Second ingredient: rotation of closed loops of B connects ground statesWhich implies large density of states near Bav = 0
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Using these magnetic fields we can construct a coarse grained partitionfunction
Solve constraint to get Maxwell theory for N gauge fields
Leads to dipolar spin correlations and entropic Coulombinteractions between monopoles now proportional to T.
AB
rr
=
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PWA
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