Evidence for dynamic kagome ice.

ABSTRACT: The search for two-dimensional quantum spin liquids, exotic magnetic states remaining disordered down to zero temperature, has been a great challenge in frustrated magnetism over the last few decades. Recently, evidence for fractionalized excitations, called spinons, emerging from these states has been observed in kagome and triangular antiferromagnets. In contrast, quantum ferromagnetic spin liquids in two dimensions, namely quantum kagome ices, have been less investigated, yet their classical counterparts exhibit amazing properties, magnetic monopole crystals as well as magnetic fragmentation. Here, we show that applying a magnetic field to the pyrochlore oxide Nd₂Zr₂O₇, which has been shown to develop three-dimensional quantum magnetic fragmentation in z

SUBMITTER: Lhotel E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6141606 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature