Two-Stage Ordering of Spins in Dipolar Spin Ice on the Kagome Lattice
Two-Stage Ordering of Spins in Dipolar Spin Ice on the Kagome Lattice
Spin ice, a peculiar thermal state of a frustrated ferromagnet on the pyrochlore lattice, has a finite entropy density and excitations carrying magnetic charge. By combining analytical arguments and Monte Carlo simulations, we show that spin ice on the two-dimensional kagome lattice orders in two stages. The intermediate phase has …