Degeneracy and Strong Fluctuation-Induced First-Order Phase Transition in the Dipolar Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet

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2005-07-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0507289v2

Phys. Rev. B 72, 184408 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

8 pages, 9 figures, new version to appear in PRB, added refs

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.72.184408

We show that a continuous set of degenerate critical soft modes strongly enhances the first-order character of a fluctuation-induced first-order transition in the pyrochlore dipolar Heisenberg antiferromagnet. Such a degeneracy seems essential to explain the strong first-order transition recently observed in Gd(2)Sn(2)O(7). We present some evidence from Monte-Carlo simulations and a perturbative renormalization group expansion.

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