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W H Toews1, Songtian S Zhang, K A Ross
1Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada.
Abstract:
Thermal transport measurements have been made on the spin-ice material Ho(2)Ti(2)O(7) in an applied magnetic field with both the heat current and the field parallel to the [111] direction for temperatures from 50 mK to 1.2 K. A large magnetic field >6 T is applied to suppress the magnetic contribution to the thermal conductivity in order to extract the lattice conductivity. The low field thermal conductivity thus reveals a magnetic field dependent contribution to the conductivity which both transfers heat and scatters phonons. We interpret these magnetic excitations as monopolelike excitations and describe their behavior via existing Debye-Hückel theory.
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