Quantum Excitations in Quantum Spin Ice

Physical Review X

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1-10

  Ross, Kate A ^a   Savary, Lucile ^b   Gaulin, Bruce D ^a,c,d   Balents, Leon ^e  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetism; Strongly Correlated Materials

Indexed keywords

DIPOLAR SPIN ICE; HAMILTONIAN PARAMETERS; HIGH-FIELD; INELASTIC NEUTRONS; LARGER FIELDS; LOW MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC MONOPOLES; POWER-LAW; PYROCHLORE STRUCTURES; QUANTUM CRITICAL POINTS; QUANTUM SPIN; QUANTUM SPIN LIQUID; SPIN CORRELATIONS; STRONGLY CORRELATED MATERIALS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; LIQUIDS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOSTATICS; SPIN FLUCTUATIONS; YTTERBIUM;

HAMILTONIANS;

EID: 82455193991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.1.021002     Document Type: Article

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