Figure 4: Plateu in the magnetization and intermediate state of the model with distortions (d-DSM). | Nature Communications

Figure 4: Plateu in the magnetization and intermediate state of the model with distortions (d-DSM).

From: Intermediate magnetization state and competing orders in Dy2Ti2O7 and Ho2Ti2O7

Figure 4

(a) The simulated magnetization curve in a homogeneous system as a function of field for T=0.1 K with the field at an angle of −5° from [111]. A mid-plateau is stabilised between the kagome-ice and the fully polarized state. (b) A sketch of this intermediate state projected along [100]. The coloured circles mark tetrahedra where the ice-rule is broken either by excess (blue) or defect (red) of inward pointing spins.

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