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Metal-insulator transition caused by the coupling to localized charge-frustrated systems under ice-rule local constraint
We report the results of our theoretical and numerical study on electronic
and transport properties of fermion systems with charge frustration. We
consider an extended Falicov-Kimball model in which itinerant spinless fermions
interact repulsively by U with localized particles whose distribution satisfies
a local constraint under geometrical frustration, the so-called ice rule. We
numerically calculate the density of states, optical conductivity, and inverse
participation ratio for the models on the pyrochlore, checkerboard, and kagome
lattices, and discuss the nature of metal-insulator transitions at commensurate
fillings. As a result, we show that the ice-rule local constraint leads to
several universal features in the electronic structure; a charge gap opens at a
considerably small U compared to the bandwidth, and the energy spectrum
approaches a characteristic form in the large U limit, that is, the
noninteracting tight-binding form in one dimension or the -functional
peak. In the large U region, the itinerant fermions are confined in the
macroscopically-degenerate ice-rule configurations, which consist of a bunch of
one-dimensional loops: We call this insulating state the charge ice. On the
other hand, transport properties are much affected by the geometry and
dimensionality of lattices; e.g., the pyrochlore lattice model exhibits a
transition from a metallic to the charge-ice insulating state by increasing U,
while the checkerboard lattice model appears to show Anderson localization
before opening a gap. Meanwhile, in the kagome lattice case, we do not obtain
clear evidence of Anderson localization. Our results elucidate the universality
and diversity of phase transitions to the charge-ice insulator in fully
frustrated lattices.Comment: 16 pages, 17 figure
Brownian Motion and Quantum Dynamics of Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice
Spin ice illustrates many unusual magnetic properties, including zero point
entropy, emergent monopoles and a quasi liquid-gas transition. To reveal the
quantum spin dynamics that underpin these phenomena is an experimental
challenge. Here we show how crucial information is contained in the frequency
dependence of the magnetic susceptibility and in its high frequency or
adiabatic limit. These measures indicate that monopole diffusion is strictly
Brownian but is underpinned by spin tunnelling and is influenced by collective
monopole interactions. We also find evidence of driven monopole plasma
oscillations in weak applied field, and unconventional critical behaviour in
strong applied field. Our results resolve contradictions in the present
understanding of spin ice, reveal unexpected physics and establish adiabatic
susceptibility as a revealing characteristic of exotic spin systems.Comment: Main : 12 pages, 6 figures. Supplementary Information : 10 pages, 7
figures. Manuscript submitte
Crystal Shape-Dependent Magnetic Susceptibility and Curie Law Crossover in the Spin Ices Dy2Ti2O7 and Ho2Ti2O7
We present an experimental determination of the isothermal magnetic
susceptibility of the spin ice materials Dy2Ti2O7 and Ho2Ti2O7 in the
temperature range 1.8-300 K. The use of spherical crystals has allowed the
accurate correction for demagnetizing fields and allowed the true bulk
isothermal susceptibility X_T(T) to be estimated. This has been compared to a
theoretical expression based on a Husimi tree approximation to the spin ice
model. Agreement between experiment and theory is excellent at T > 10 K, but
systematic deviations occur below that temperature. Our results largely resolve
an apparent disagreement between neutron scattering and bulk measurements that
has been previously noted. They also show that the use of non-spherical
crystals in magnetization studies of spin ice may introduce very significant
systematic errors, although we note some interesting - and possibly new -
systematics concerning the demagnetizing factor in cuboidal samples. Finally,
our results show how experimental susceptibility measurements on spin ices may
be used to extract the characteristic energy scale of the system and the
corresponding chemical potential for emergent magnetic monopoles.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures 1 table. Manuscript submitte
Statistics of extremal intensities for Gaussian interfaces
The extremal Fourier intensities are studied for stationary
Edwards-Wilkinson-type, Gaussian, interfaces with power-law dispersion. We
calculate the probability distribution of the maximal intensity and find that,
generically, it does not coincide with the distribution of the integrated power
spectrum (i.e. roughness of the surface), nor does it obey any of the known
extreme statistics limit distributions. The Fisher-Tippett-Gumbel limit
distribution is, however, recovered in three cases: (i) in the non-dispersive
(white noise) limit, (ii) for high dimensions, and (iii) when only
short-wavelength modes are kept. In the last two cases the limit distribution
emerges in novel scenarios.Comment: 15 pages, including 7 ps figure
Space-time Thermodynamics of the Glass Transition
We consider the probability distribution for fluctuations in dynamical action
and similar quantities related to dynamic heterogeneity. We argue that the
so-called "glass transition" is a manifestation of low action tails in these
distributions where the entropy of trajectory space is sub-extensive in time.
These low action tails are a consequence of dynamic heterogeneity and an
indication of phase coexistence in trajectory space. The glass transition,
where the system falls out of equilibrium, is then an order-disorder phenomenon
in space-time occurring at a temperature T_g which is a weak function of
measurement time. We illustrate our perspective ideas with facilitated lattice
models, and note how these ideas apply more generally.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Low-temperature muon spin rotation studies of the monopole charges and currents in Y doped Ho2Ti2O7
In the ground state of Ho2Ti2O7 spin ice, the disorder of the magnetic moments follows the same rules as the proton disorder in water ice. Excitations take the form of magnetic monopoles that interact via a magnetic Coulomb interaction. Muon spin rotation has been used to probe the low-temperature magnetic behaviour in single crystal Ho2−xYxTi2O7 (x = 0, 0.1, 1, 1.6 and 2). At very low temperatures, a linear field dependence for the relaxation rate of the muon precession λ(B), that in some previous experiments on Dy2Ti2O7 spin ice has been associated with monopole currents, is observed in samples with x = 0, and 0.1. A signal from the magnetic fields penetrating into the silver sample plate due to the magnetization of the crystals is observed for all the samples containing Ho allowing us to study the unusual magnetic dynamics of Y doped spin ice
Temperature Dependence of the Magnetic Penetration Depth in the Vortex State of the Pyrochlore Superconductor, Cd2Re2O7
We report transverse field and zero field muon spin rotation studies of the
superconducting rhenium oxide pyrochlore, Cd2Re2O7. Transverse field
measurements (H=0.007 T) show line broadening below Tc, which is characteristic
of a vortex state, demonstrating conclusively the type-II nature of this
superconductor. The penetration depth is seen to level off below about 400 mK
(T/Tc~0.4), with a rather large value of lambda (T=0)~7500A. The temperature
independent behavior below ~ 400 mK is consistent with a nodeless
superconducting energy gap. Zero-field measurements indicate no static magnetic
fields developing below the transition temperature.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, REVTEX 4, submitted to PR
Linearity and Scaling of a Statistical Model for the Species Abundance Distribution
We derive a linear recursion relation for the species abundance distribution
in a statistical model of ecology and demonstrate the existence of a scaling
solution
Magnetic Monopole Dynamics in Spin Ice
One of the most remarkable examples of emergent quasi-particles, is that of
the "fractionalization" of magnetic dipoles in the low energy configurations of
materials known as "spin ice", into free and unconfined magnetic monopoles
interacting via Coulomb's 1/r law [Castelnovo et. al., Nature, 451, 42-45
(2008)]. Recent experiments have shown that a Coulomb gas of magnetic charges
really does exist at low temperature in these materials and this discovery
provides a new perspective on otherwise largely inaccessible phenomenology. In
this paper, after a review of the different spin ice models, we present
detailed results describing the diffusive dynamics of monopole particles
starting both from the dipolar spin ice model and directly from a Coulomb gas
within the grand canonical ensemble. The diffusive quasi-particle dynamics of
real spin ice materials within "quantum tunneling" regime is modeled with
Metropolis dynamics, with the particles constrained to move along an underlying
network of oriented paths, which are classical analogues of the Dirac strings
connecting pairs of Dirac monopoles.Comment: 26 pages, 12 figure
Topological Sector Fluctuations and Curie Law Crossover in Spin Ice
At low temperatures, a spin ice enters a Coulomb phase - a state with
algebraic correlations and topologically constrained spin configurations. In
Ho2Ti2O7, we have observed experimentally that this process is accompanied by a
non-standard temperature evolution of the wave vector dependent magnetic
susceptibility, as measured by neutron scattering. Analytical and numerical
approaches reveal signatures of a crossover between two Curie laws, one
characterizing the high temperature paramagnetic regime, and the other the low
temperature topologically constrained regime, which we call the spin liquid
Curie law. The theory is shown to be in excellent agreement with neutron
scattering experiments. On a more general footing, i) the existence of two
Curie laws appears to be a general property of the emergent gauge field for a
classical spin liquid, and ii) sheds light on the experimental difficulty of
measuring a precise Curie-Weiss temperature in frustrated materials; iii) the
mapping between gauge and spin degrees of freedom means that the susceptibility
at finite wave vector can be used as a local probe of fluctuations among
topological sectors.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
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