Fragmented Spin Ice and Multi-<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>k</mml:mi></mml:math> Ordering in Rare-Earth Antiperovskites

Abstract

We study near-neighbor and dipolar Ising models on a lattice of corner-sharing octahedra. In an extended parameter range of both models, frustration between antiferromagnetism and a spin-ice-like three-in-three-out rule stabilizes a Coulomb phase with correlated dipolar and quadrupolar spin textures, both yielding distinctive neutron-scattering signatures. Strong further-neighbor perturbations cause the two components to order independently, resulting in unusual multi-$k$ orders. We propose experimental realizations of our model in rare-earth antiperovskites.

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