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Goldstone modes in the emergent gauge fields of a frustrated magnet

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We consider magnon excitations in the spin-glass phase of geometrically frustrated antiferromagnets with weak exchange disorder, focusing on the nearest-neighbor pyrochlore-lattice Heisenberg model at large spin. The low-energy degrees of freedom in this system are represented by three copies of a U(1) emergent gauge field, related by global spin-rotation symmetry. We show that the Goldstone modes associated with spin-glass order are excitations of these gauge fields, and that the standard th...

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10.1103/PhysRevB.101.024413

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Theoretical Physics
Oxford college:
St John's College
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Theoretical Physics
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-4369-6071
Publisher:
American Physical Society Publisher's website
Journal:
Physical Review B Journal website
Volume:
101
Issue:
2
Article number:
024413
Publication date:
2020-01-15
Acceptance date:
2019-12-23
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EISSN:
2469-9969
ISSN:
2469-9950
Language:
English
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1039406
Local pid:
pubs:1039406
Deposit date:
2020-02-21

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