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

Order by Disorder and Energetic Selection of the Ground State in the XY Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet Er2Ti2O7. An Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study

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Examples of materials where an " order by disorder " mechanism is at play to select a particular ground state are scarce. It has recently been proposed, however, that the antiferromagnetic XY pyrochlore Er 2 Ti 2 O 7 reveals a most convincing case of this mechanism, with the observation of a spin gap at zone centers having recently been interpreted as a corroboration of this physics. Here we argue, however, that the anisotropy generated by the interaction-induced admixing between the crystal-field ground and excited levels provides for an alternative mechanism. It especially predicts the opening of a spin gap of about 15 μeV, which is of the same order of magnitude as the one observed experimentally. We report high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering data which can be well understood within this scenario.
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cea-01377031 , version 1 (06-10-2016)

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Sylvain Petit, Julien Robert, Solene Guitteny, Pierre Bonville, Claudia Decorse, et al.. Order by Disorder and Energetic Selection of the Ground State in the XY Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet Er2Ti2O7. An Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2014, 90, pp.60410. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.90.060410⟩. ⟨cea-01377031⟩
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