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Spin Ice

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Editors:
  1. Masafumi Udagawa

    1. Department of Physics, Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan

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  2. Ludovic Jaubert

    1. Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d’Aquitaine, Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux, France

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  • Presents a state-of-the-art review of an exciting new class of materials
  • Explains theoretical techniques required to become active in the field in a textbook-like manner
  • Describes magnetic monopoles in spin ice
  • Written by key researchers in the field

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences (SSSOL, volume 197)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Spin Ice: Microscopic Physics

    • M. J. P. Gingras, P. A. McClarty, J. G. Rau
    Pages 1-18

  3. Crystal Growth of Pyrochlore Compounds

    • D. Prabhakaran
    Pages 19-35

  4. Spin Ice As a Coulomb Liquid: From Emergent Gauge Fields to Magnetic Monopoles

    • Roderich Moessner
    Pages 37-70

  5. Dynamics

    • K. Matsuhira
    Pages 71-91

  6. Magnetic Field as an External Probe of Spin Ice Anisotropy

    • Toshiro Sakakibara, Zenji Hiroi
    Pages 93-116

  7. Topology of the Vacuum

    • L. D. C. Jaubert
    Pages 117-141

  8. Modelling of Classical Spin Ice: Coulomb Gas Description of Thermodynamic and Dynamic Properties

    • C. Castelnovo, P. C. W. Holdsworth
    Pages 143-188

  9. Experimental Observation of Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice

    • Steven T. Bramwell, T. Fennell
    Pages 189-238

  10. Quantum Coherence: Quantum Spin Ice and Lattice Gauge Theory

    • Lucile Savary, Leon Balents
    Pages 239-271

  11. Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of Quantum Spin Ice

    • Nic Shannon
    Pages 273-301

  12. Analytical Approaches to Quantum Spin Ice

    • Owen Benton
    Pages 303-323

  13. Experimental Search for Quantum Spin Ice

    • Kate A. Ross
    Pages 325-361

  14. Novel Electronic Phases of Matter: Coupling to Itinerant Electrons

    • Masafumi Udagawa
    Pages 363-397

  15. Anomalous Transport Properties of Pyrochlore Iridates

    • K. Matsuhira, S. Nakatsuji
    Pages 399-418

  16. Artificial Spin Ice: Beyond Pyrochlores and Magnetism

    • Gia-Wei Chern
    Pages 419-453

  17. Experimental Studies of Artificial Spin Ice

    • Christopher H. Marrows
    Pages 455-478

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 479-484
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About this book

This book deals with a new class of magnetic materials, spin ice. Spin ice has become the canonical example of modern frustrated magnetism where competing interactions between spins set the rules for an emergent magnetostatic gauge field theory. Excitations take the form of magnetic monopoles or can condense via a Higgs mechanism. Beyond classical spin ice, the book describes the new physics emerging when quantum coherence (spin liquids, photon-like excitations) and itinerant electrons (anomalous Hall effect) are included in artificial systems. This first book dedicated to spin ice is a review of the current understanding of the field, both on the theoretical and experimental levels, written by leading experts. The book is written in a linear way with very few prerequisites. It also contains textbook-like descriptions of theoretical methods to help advanced students and researchers to enter the field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics, Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan

    Masafumi Udagawa

  • Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d’Aquitaine, Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux, France

    Ludovic Jaubert

About the editors

Masafumi Udagawa is a professor of Gakushuin University in Tokyo. He started his scientific career at the physics department of Tokyo University. He then moved to the applied physics department of Tokyo University as an assistant professor and worked on strongly correlated electron systems. In 2011, he stayed in Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and worked in the intersection of frustrated magnetism and correlated electron systems. In 2015, he received Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan and in the same year, he obtained a tenured position in Gakushuin University. His main interest is the fractional excitations of quantum spin liquid phase in frustrated magnetic systems. He applies the technique of electron systems to clarify their mystic character. 

Ludovic Jaubert works at the frontier between condensed matter theory and statistical physics. He is especially interested in frustrated systems, spin liquids, emergent phenomena, spin dynamics ... Since 2017, Ludovic works at CNRS in the University of Bordeaux. His scientific career, which started at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, led him to the Max-Planck Institute für Physik komplexer Systeme in Dresden, the University of Oxford and the Okinawa Institute of Science of Technology. 

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