Dynamically induced frustration as a route to a quantum spin ice state in Tb2Ti2O7 via virtual crystal field

Hamid R Molavian1, Michel J P Gingras, Benjamin Canals

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada.

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