Multiple Field-Induced Phase Transitions in a Geometrically-Frustrated Dipolar Magnet - Gd2Ti2O7

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2001-12-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112022v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 067202 (2002).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

10pages,5figures: pdf file attached PACS 75.30.Kz, 75.50.Ee, 75.10.-b

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.067202

Field-driven phase transitions generally arise from competition between Zeeman energy and exchange or crystal-field anisotropy. Here we present the phase diagram of a frustrated pyrochlore magnet Gd2Ti2O7, where crystal field splitting is small compared to the dipolar energy. We find good agreement between zero-temperature critical fields and those obtained from a mean-field model. Here, dipolar interactions couple real-space and spin-space, so the transitions in Gd2Ti2O7 arise from field-induced "cooperative anisotropy" reflecting the broken spatial symmetries of the pyrochlore lattice.

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