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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
Coexistence of the long-range and short-range magnetic order components in SrEr(2)O(4)
Single crystal neutron diffraction reveals two distinct components to the
magnetic ordering in geometrically frustrated SrErO. One component is a
long-range ordered structure which appears below K.
Another component is a short-range incommensurate structure which manifests
itself by the presence of a strong diffuse scattering signal. On cooling from
higher temperatures down to 0.06 K, the partially ordered component does not
undergo a pronounced phase transition. The magnetic moments in the long-range
commensurate and short-range incommensurate structures are predominantly
pointing along the [001] and [100] axes respectively. The unusual coexistence
of two magnetic structures is probed using both unpolarised and XYZ-polarised
neutron scattering techniques. The observed diffuse scattering pattern can be
satisfactorily reproduced with a classical Monte Carlo simulation by using a
simple model based on a ladder of triangles.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure