Defect Poisoning of Quantum Spin Ice

arXiv:2609.28643 · cond-mat.str-el · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Terminology

• Degeneracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Effective Hamiltonian — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entanglement — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• APEX — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Entanglement Entropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Frustration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Topological Order — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Ground state of the $S$=1/2 pyrochlore Heisenberg antiferromagnet: A quantum spin liquid emergent from dimensional reduction

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