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arXiv 2002-10-10 DOI 10.1016/S0921-4526(02)02225-1 0 views

Spin-Ice and Other Frustrated Magnets on the Pyrochlore Lattice

Shastry, B. Sriram

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The recent identification of the dysprosium titanate compound Dy₂ Ti₂ O₇ as a ``Spin-Ice'', i.e. the spin analog of regular entropic ice of Pauling, has created considerable excitement. The ability to manipulate spins using magnetic fields gives a unique advantage over regular ice in these systems, and has been used to study the recovery of entropy. Predicted magnetization plateaus have been observed, testing the underlying model consisting of a competition between short ranged super exchange, and long ranged dipolar interactions between spins. I discuss other compounds that are possibly spin ice like: Ho₂ Ti₂ O₇, and the two stannates Ho₂ Sn₂ O₇, Dy₂ Sn₂ O₇.

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