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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015) Année : 2012

Heterogeneous freezing in a geometrically frustrated spin model without disorder: spontaneous generation of two time-scales

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By considering the constrained motion of classical spins in a geometrically frustrated magnet, we find a dynamical freezing temperature below which the system gets trapped in metastable states with a "frozen" moment and dynamical heterogeneities. The residual collective degrees of freedom are strongly correlated, and by spontaneously forming aggregates, they are unable to reorganize the system. The phase space is then fragmented in a macroscopic number of disconnected sectors (broken ergodicity), resulting in self-induced disorder and "thermodynamic" anomalies, measured by the loss of a finite configurational entropy. We discuss these results in the view of experimental results on the kagome compounds, SrCr(9p)Ga(12-9p)O19, (H30)Fe3(SO4)2(OH)6, Cu3V2O7(OH)2.2H2O and Cu3BaV2O8(OH)2.

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hal-00704962 , version 1 (06-06-2012)

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Olivier Cepas, Benjamin Canals. Heterogeneous freezing in a geometrically frustrated spin model without disorder: spontaneous generation of two time-scales. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2012, pp.024434. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.86.024434⟩. ⟨hal-00704962⟩

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