Supercooled spin liquid state in the frustrated pyrochlore Dy2Ti2O7

Kassner, Ethan R.; Eyvazov, Azar B.; Pichler, Benjamin; Munsie, Timothy J. S.; Dabkowska, Hanna A.; Luke, Graeme M.; Davis, J. C. Seamus

doi:10.1073/pnas.1511006112

Title: Supercooled spin liquid state in the frustrated pyrochlore Dy₂Ti₂O₇

Journal Article · Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511006112· OSTI ID:1261641

Kassner, Ethan R. ^[1]; Eyvazov, Azar B. ^[1]; Pichler, Benjamin ^[2]; Munsie, Timothy J. S. ^[3]; Dabkowska, Hanna A. ^[3]; Luke, Graeme M. ^[4]; Davis, J. C. Seamus ^[5]

Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States); Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada)
McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada); Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON (Canada)
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Univ. of St. Andrews, Fife (United Kingdom)

A “supercooled” liquid develops when a fluid does not crystallize upon cooling below its ordering temperature. Instead, the microscopic relaxation times diverge so rapidly that, upon further cooling, equilibration eventually becomes impossible and glass formation occurs. Classic supercooled liquids exhibit specific identifiers including microscopic relaxation times diverging on a Vogel–Tammann–Fulcher (VTF) trajectory, a Havriliak–Negami (HN) form for the dielectric function ε(ω,T), and a general Kohlrausch–Williams–Watts (KWW) form for time-domain relaxation. Recently, the pyrochlore Dy₂Ti₂O₇ has become of interest because its frustrated magnetic interactions may, in theory, lead to highly exotic magnetic fluids. However, its true magnetic state at low temperatures has proven very difficult to identify unambiguously. Here, we introduce high-precision, boundary-free magnetization transport techniques based upon toroidal geometries and gain an improved understanding of the time- and frequency-dependent magnetization dynamics of Dy₂Ti₂O₇. We demonstrate a virtually universal HN form for the magnetic susceptibility χ(ω,T), a general KWW form for the real-time magnetic relaxation, and a divergence of the microscopic magnetic relaxation rates with the VTF trajectory. Low-temperature Dy₂Ti₂O₇ therefore exhibits the characteristics of a supercooled magnetic liquid. Lastly, one implication is that this translationally invariant lattice of strongly correlated spins may be evolving toward an unprecedented magnetic glass state, perhaps due to many-body localization of spin.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

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OSTI ID:: 1261641

Journal Information:: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 112, Issue 28; ISSN 0027-8424

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