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arxiv: cond-mat/0407004 · v1 · pith:RH4SVICXnew · submitted 2004-07-01 · ❄️ cond-mat.dis-nn · cond-mat.stat-mech· cond-mat.str-el· cond-mat.supr-con

Dipolar spin correlations in classical pyrochlore magnets

classification ❄️ cond-mat.dis-nn cond-mat.stat-mechcond-mat.str-elcond-mat.supr-con
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We study spin correlations for the highly frustrated classical pyrochlore lattice antiferromagnets with O(N) symmetry in the limit T->0. We conjecture that a local constraint obeyed by the extensively degenerate ground states dictates a dipolar form for the asymptotic spin correlations, at all N $\ne$ 2 for which the system is paramagnetic down to T=0. We verify this conjecture in the cases N=1 and N=3 by simulations and to all orders in the 1/N expansion about the solvable N=infinity limit. Remarkably, the N=infinity formulae are an excellent fit, at all distances, to the correlators at N=3 and even at N=1. Thus we obtain a simple analytical expression also for the correlations of the equivalent models of spin ice and cubic water ice, I_h.

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