Zero-point entropy in "spin ice".

Author(s) : RAMIREZ A. P., HAYASHI A., CAVA R. J., et al.

Type of article: Article

Summary

Common water ice is an unusual solid; the oxygen atoms form a periodic structure but the hydrogen atoms are highly disordered due to there being two non-equivalent O-H bond lengths. The presence of these two bond lengths leads to a macroscopic degeneracy of possible ground states. The authors present specific-heat data for an analogous system, dysprosium(2)-titanium(2)-oxygen(7). They also find, through application of magnetic field, behaviour not accessible in water ice-restoration of much of the ground-state entropy and new transitions involving transverse spin degrees of freedom.

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  • Original title: Zero-point entropy in "spin ice".
  • Record ID : 2000-1015
  • Languages: English
  • Source: Nature - vol. 399 - n. 6734
  • Publication date: 1999/06/03
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