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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015) Année : 2014

Order from structural disorder in the X Y pyrochlore antiferromagnet Er 2 Ti 2 O 7

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The effect of structural disorder is investigated for an XY pyrochlore antiferromagnet with continuous degeneracy of classical ground states. Two types of disorder-vacancies and weakly fluctuating exchange bonds-lift degeneracy, selecting the same subset of classical ground states. Analytic and numerical results demonstrate that such an "order by structural disorder" mechanism competes with the effect of thermal and quantum fluctuations. Our theory predicts that a small amount of nonmagnetic impurities in Er2Ti2O7 will stabilize the coplanar psi(3) (m(x2-y2)) magnetic structure as opposed to the psi(2) (m(3z2-r2)) state found in pure material.

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hal-02095625 , version 1 (10-04-2019)

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V. Maryasin, Mike E. Zhitomirsky. Order from structural disorder in the X Y pyrochlore antiferromagnet Er 2 Ti 2 O 7. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2014, 90 (9), pp.094412. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.90.094412⟩. ⟨hal-02095625⟩
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