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Title:AC Wien effect in spin ice, manifest in non-linear non-equilibrium susceptibility

Abstract: We predict the non-linear non-equilibrium response of a "magnetolyte", the Coulomb fluid of magnetic monopoles in spin ice. This involves an increase of the monopole density due to the second Wien effect---a universal and robust enhancement for Coulomb systems in an external field---which in turn speeds up the magnetization dynamics, manifest in a non-linear susceptibility. Along the way, we gain new insights into the AC version of the classic Wien effect. One striking discovery is that of a frequency window where the Wien effect for magnetolyte and electrolyte are indistinguishable, with the former exhibiting perfect symmetry between the charges. In addition, we find a new low-frequency regime where the growing magnetization counteracts the Wien effect. We discuss for what parameters best to observe the AC Wien effect in Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$.
Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures + Supplemental Material
Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
Journal reference: Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 037201 (2015)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.037201
Cite as: arXiv:1412.4981 [cond-mat.stat-mech]
  (or arXiv:1412.4981v1 [cond-mat.stat-mech] for this version)

Submission history

From: Vojtěch Kaiser [view email]
[v1] Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:39:05 UTC (1,339 KB)