Evidence of quantum order by disorder in a frustrated antiferromagnet
- 16 July 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 68 (2) , 020401
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.68.020401
Abstract
has been suggested to be a realization of the frustrated pyrochlore lattice antiferromagnet, for which theory predicts fluctuation-induced symmetry breaking in a highly degenerate ground state manifold. We present a theoretical analysis of the classical model compared to neutron scattering experiments on the real material, both below and above The model correctly predicts the ordered magnetic structure, suggesting that the real system has order stabilized by zero-point quantum fluctuations that can be modeled by classical spin wave theory. However, the model fails to describe the excitations of the system, which show unusual features.
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