Magnetic Charge Transport in Spin Ice

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The transport of electrically charged quasiparticles plays a pivotal role in modern technology. In contrast, the transport of magnetic charges has barely been explored experimentally, mainly because magnetic charges are generally considered to be, at most, convenient macroscopic parameters rather than sharply defined quasiparticles. However, recent propositions of emergent magnetic monopoles in spin ice materials has led directly to significant experimental observations supporting the existence of monopoles, however this relies on the microscopic interpretation of spin ice. We have recently focused on the possibility of measuring magnetic charge directly using muon spin rotation in Dy2Ti2O7, leading directly to an experimental value of magnetic charge. We propose to apply our method to determine the basic properties of magnetic charge transport in spin ice.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079445
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079445
Provenance
Creator Dr Tom Fennell; Dr Sean Giblin; Professor Steven Bramwell
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-06-28T15:39:45Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-07-06T13:58:39Z