Long-range order at low temperatures in dipolar spin ice |
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Authors: | Melko R G den Hertog B C Gingras M J |
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Institution: | Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1. |
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Abstract: | It has recently been suggested that long-range magnetic dipolar interactions are responsible for spin ice behavior in the Ising pyrochlore magnets Dy2Ti2O7 and Ho2Ti2O7. We report here numerical results on the low temperature properties of the dipolar spin ice model, obtained via a new loop algorithm which greatly improves the dynamics at low temperature. We recover the previously reported missing entropy in this model, and find a first order transition to a long-range ordered phase with zero total magnetization at very low temperature. We discuss the relevance of these results to Dy2Ti2O7 and Ho2Ti2O7. |
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