Order by quantum disorder in Er 2Ti 2O 7

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Savary, Lucile ^a   Ross, Kate A ^b   Gaulin, Bruce D ^b,c,d   Ruff, Jacob P C ^b,e   Balents, Leon ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGENERATE STATE; DEGREE OF SYMMETRY; INELASTIC NEUTRONS; MEAN-FIELD LEVEL; PYROCHLORE LATTICES; QUANTUM DISORDER; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION;

ERBIUM; EXPERIMENTS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

HAMILTONIANS;

EID: 84867555702     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.167201     Document Type: Article

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