Low energy excitation states in magnetic structures of the so-called spin-ices are produced via spin flips among contiguous tetrahedra of their crystal structure. These spin flips generate entities which mimic magnetic dipoles in every two tetrahedra according to the dumbbell model. When the temperature increases, the spin-flip processes are transmitted in the lattice, generating so-called Dirac strings, which constitute structural entities that can present mimetic behavior similar to that of magnetic monopoles. In recent studies of both specific heat and ac magnetic susceptibility, two (even possibly three) phases have been shown to vary the temperature. The first of these phases presents a sharp peak in the specific heat and another phase transition occurs for increasing temperature whose peak is broader than that of the former phase. The sharp peak occurs when there are no free individual magnetic charges and temperature of the second phase transition coincides with the maximum proliferation of free deconfined magnetic charges. In the present paper, we propose a model for analyzing the low energy excitation many-body states of these spin-ice systems. We give analytical formulas for the internal energy, specific heat, entropy and their temperature evolution. We study the description of the possible global states via the nature and structure of their one-body components by means of the thermodynamic functions. Below 0.37 K, the Coulomb-like magnetic charge interaction can generate a phase transition to a condensation of pole-antipole pairs, possibly having Bose-Einstein structure which is responsible for the sharp peak of the first phase transition. When there are sufficient free positive and negative charges, the system tends to behave as a magnetic plasma, which implies the broader peak in the specific heat appearing at higher temperature than the sharper experimental peak.
Excitations in magnetic structures of the so-called spin-ice materials generate two different peaks in the specific heat and anomalies in entropy in the temperature interval between 0 and 1 K. These points are due to the existence of two low-energy excited global states which seem to transit from a bosonic condensate towards a magnetic neutral plasma in a narrow temperature interval between 0.05 ≤ T ≤ 1 K. In this paper, we determine the characteristic features of two states and we analyze the possibilities of existence of a BEC state and its phase transition to the magnetic plasma state from a model of two magnetic charge fluids. From the structural analysis of the many-body excitation states, we obtain theoretical results about entropy and specific heat since these two key physical magnitudes announce the phase transitions. We give criteria for distinguishing if some of these phase transitions is of either first or second order.
Low energy excitation states in magnetic structures of the so-called spin-ices are produced via spin flips among contiguous tetrahedrons of their crystal structure. When there are sufficient free positive and negative charges, the system behaves as a magnetic plasma, which could correspond to the highest temperature peak of the specific heat. The electromagnetic waves in both unconfined and confined systems (waveguides) filled with materials of magnetic charges can be able to transmit information and energy. The only problem is the low temperature for which these magnetic entities appear in the spin-ice materials. However, similar behaviour may be present in other compounds at higher temperatures. This analysis is addressed to study physical properties which should be present in those new materials. Therefore, in this paper, we obtain some magnetic linear responses, the effective masses of the magnetic charges from the precession movement of the monopoles which coincides with a strong electromagnetic absorption frequency, the plasmonic physical magnitude which is identified with the cut propagation frequency in a wave guide, and other properties of the electromagnetic propagation in these compounds with effective magnetic monopoles such as the modification of the electromagnetic fields of the wave in the presence of magnetic charges and currents. All these electromagnetic properties can serve as tests for detecting magnetic entities which mimic the behaviour of magnetic monopoles in other different new materials. Besides, these analyses can be illuminating for obtaining possible circuital applications of these materials that lead to “Magnetronic” devices.
Excited states in magnetic structures of the so-called spin-ices and in some artificial magnetic materials present a behaviour as being a magnetic neutral plasma. In this state the electromagnetic waves in confined systems (waveguides) filled with materials with magnetic charges are able to transmit information and energy. In the natural spin-ices, the difficulty is the very low temperature for which these magnetic entities appear, whose phenomenology under the electromagnetic interaction is that of solids containing magnetic charges. However, similar behaviour may be present in other compounds at higher temperatures, even at room temperature and they are named artificial spin-ice compounds. This analysis is addressed to obtain theoretical results about magnetic responses and frequency-dependent magnetricity.The key physical magnitudes are the plasmon frequency (ω P ) which is related to the cut-off frequency in a wave guide and the effective inertial masses (m) of these magnetic charges. All properties of the electromagnetic propagation in these compounds with effective magnetic monopoles depend on ω P and m. This is carried out including the dissipative forces among magnetic charges which give new characteristic features to the electromagnetic propagation. The main goal of this work is the analysis of these electromagnetic properties in order to find possible circuital applications of these materials to be utilized by devices.
The low energy excitation states in frustrated magnetic structures can generate quasiparticles that behave as if they were magnetic charges. These excited states produce, in the so-called spin-ice materials, two different peaks of specific heat at temperatures less than 1.5 K. In this paper, we consider that the first structure is caused by the formation of fluid of magnetic dipoles configured by the dumbbell model with a boson nature in consonance with that described by Witten for mesons. The second structure, wider than the first one, corresponds to a plasma state that comes from the breaking of a great number of dipoles, which provokes the appearance of free magnetic charges, which constitute a cool magnetic plasma fluid. In this paper, we determine thermodynamic analytical functions: the thermo-potential and internal energy and their respective derivative physical magnitudes: entropy, and magnetic specific heat. We obtain results in a good concordance with the experimental data, which allow us to explain the phase transitions occurred in these spin-ice materials at very low temperatures.
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