title: Spin slush in an extended spin ice model.
abstract: We present a new classical spin liquid on the pyrochlore lattice by extending spin ice with further neighbour interactions. We find that this disorder-free spin model exhibits a form of dynamical heterogeneity with extremely slow relaxation for some spins, while others fluctuate quickly down to zero temperature. We thus call this state spin slush, in analogy to the heterogeneous mixture of solid and liquid water. This behaviour is driven by the structure of the ground-state manifold which extends the celebrated two-in/two-out ice states to include branching structures built from three-in/one-out, three-out/one-in and all-in/all-out tetrahedra defects. Distinctive liquid-like patterns in the magnetic correlations serve as a signature of this intermediate range order. Possible applications to materials as well the effects of quantum tunnelling are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1.
authors.forename: Jeffrey G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Rau
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1.|Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2Y5.|Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 180 Dundas Street West, Suite 1400, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1Z8.
authors.forename: Michel J P
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Gingras