Field-Induced Transition on Triangular Plane in the Spin Ice Compound Dy2Ti2O7

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2005-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509497v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

submitted to PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.237208

The origin of the lowest-temperature anomaly reported several years ago using a polycrystalline sample of the spin ice compound Dy2Ti2O7 had remained unresolved. Here we finally clarify its origin by susceptibility measurements down to 65 mK using single crystals under accurate control of the magnetic fields in two independent directions. We demonstrate that the transition is induced under a subtle field combination that precisely cancel the nearest-neighbor spin interactions acting on the spins on the triangular lattice within the pyrochlore structure. Contrary to the other two fieldinduced transitions, this transition is driven only by the interactions beyond the nearest neighbors. Our observation thus provides the first qualitative evidence for the essential importance of the dipolar interaction beyond the nearest neighbors in the spin ice.

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