Thursday 9 February 2012

Quantum spin ice II

Quantum Ice: A Quantum Monte Carlo Study.
Nic Shannon, Olga Sikora, Frank Pollmann, Karlo Penc, and Peter Fulde
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 067204 (2012)
The ice configuration possessing the most flippable plaquettes is the squiggle state, shown here within a 40-site tetragonal cell. Arrows show the displacement of protons within Ic water ice or, equivalently, the orientation of spins in spin ice. The squiggle state possesses a net magnetic flux, orientated along a [100] axis.

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