Disorder-Induced Quantum Spin Liquid in Spin Ice Pyrochlores

Savary, Lucile; Balents, Leon

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.118.087203

Title: Disorder-Induced Quantum Spin Liquid in Spin Ice Pyrochlores

Journal Article · Thu Feb 23 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.118.087203· OSTI ID:1536485

Savary, Lucile ^[1]; Balents, Leon ^[2]

Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States). Kavli Inst. for Theoretical Physics

We propose that in a certain class of magnetic materials, known as non-Kramers “spin ice,” disorder induces quantum entanglement. Instead of driving glassy behavior, disorder provokes quantum superpositions of spins throughout the system and engenders an associated emergent gauge structure and set of fractional excitations. More precisely, disorder transforms a classical phase governed by a large entropy, classical spin ice, into a quantum spin liquid governed by entanglement. As the degree of disorder is increased, the system transitions between (i) a “regular” Coulombic spin liquid, (ii) a phase known as “Mott glass,” which contains rare gapless regions in real space, but whose behavior on long length scales is only modified quantitatively, and (iii) a true glassy phase for random distributions with large width or large mean amplitude.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

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OSTI ID:: 1536485

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1344819

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 118, Issue 8; ISSN 0031-9007

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