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Effect of intrinsic quantum fluctuations on the phase diagram of anisotropic dipolar magnets

Tomer Dollberg, Juan Carlos Andresen, and Moshe Schechter
Phys. Rev. B 105, L180413 – Published 25 May 2022
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Abstract

The rare-earth material LiHoF4 is believed to be an experimental realization of the celebrated (dipolar) Ising model and, upon the inclusion of a transverse field Bx, an archetypal quantum Ising model. Moreover, by substituting the magnetic Ho ions by nonmagnetic Y ions, disorder can be introduced into the system, giving rise to a dipolar disordered magnet and at high disorders to a spin glass. Indeed, this material has been scrutinized experimentally, numerically, and theoretically over many decades with the aim of understanding various collective magnetic phenomena. One of the to-date open questions is the discrepancy between the experimental and theoretical BxT phase diagram at low fields and high temperatures. Here we propose a mechanism, backed by numerical results, that highlights the importance of quantum fluctuations induced by the off-diagonal dipolar terms, in determining the critical temperature of anisotropic dipolar magnets in the presence and in the absence of a transverse field. We thus show that the description as a simple Ising system is insufficient to quantitatively describe the full phase diagram of LiHoF4, for the pure as well as for the dilute system.

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  • Received 8 March 2022
  • Revised 9 May 2022
  • Accepted 10 May 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.L180413

©2022 American Physical Society

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Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Tomer Dollberg, Juan Carlos Andresen, and Moshe Schechter

  • Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel

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Vol. 105, Iss. 18 — 1 May 2022

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