2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research on Monopole Dynamics in Spin Ice Compounds
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26400336
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Condensed matter physics II
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University (2015-2016)
Tokyo Metropolitan University (2014) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
Hiromi Otsuka 首都大学, 東京・理工学研究科, 助教 (10254145)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 磁性 / スピンアイス / 磁気モノポール / 量子スピン液体 / 量子スピンアイス / 四極子 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We have investigated monopole dynamics in the spin-ice compound Dy2Ti2O7, which is a topological point defect theoretically similar to the Dirac monopole interacting with magnetic Coulomb force. In particular, we have studied two dimensional monopole dynamics by using ac magnetic susceptibility experiments in an ac field perpendicular to dc. We demonstrated that the slowing down of monopole dynamics in a certain field (~0.4 T) and the extreme speeding up under dc field close to the critical point (~0.9 T). We also have investigated Tb2Ti2O7, which bears resemblance to Dy2Ti2O7, and found that it could be a quantum spin ice in the vicinity of a quadrupole order state, tuned by a precise composition ration of Tb/Ti.
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| Free Research Field |
低温物性実験、中性子散乱実験
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