Dipolar spin correlations in classical pyrochlore magnets

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作者
Isakov, SV [1 ]
Gregor, K
Moessner, R
Sondhi, SL
机构
[1] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[2] Princeton Univ, Dept Phys, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[3] Ecole Normale Super, Phys Theor Lab, CNRS, UMR8549, F-75231 Paris, France
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.167204
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We study spin correlations for the highly frustrated classical pyrochlore lattice antiferromagnets with O(N) symmetry in the limit T-->0. We conjecture that a local constraint obeyed by the extensively degenerate ground states dictates a dipolar form for the asymptotic spin correlations, at all Nnot equal2 for which the system is paramagnetic down to T=0. We verify this conjecture in the cases N=1 and N=3 by simulations and to all orders in the 1/N expansion about the solvable N=infinity limit. Remarkably, the N=infinity formulas are an excellent fit, at all distances, to the correlators at N=3 and even at N=1. Thus we obtain a simple analytical expression also for the correlations of the equivalent models of spin ice and cubic water ice, Ic.
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