Anomalous Magnetoresistance by Breaking Ice Rule in Bi2Ir2O7/Dy2Ti2O7 Heterostructure

Abstract

While geometrically frustrated quantum magnets are known for a variety of exotic spin states that are of great interests of understanding emergent phenomena as well as enabling revolutionary quantum technologies, most of them are necessarily good insulators which are difficult to be integrated with modern electrical circuit that relies on moving charge carriers. The grand challenge of converting fluctuations and excitations of frustrated moments into electronic responses is finding ways to introduce charge carriers that interact with the localized spins without destroying the spin states. Here, we show that, by designing a Bi2Ir2O7/Dy2Ti2O7 heterostructure, the breaking of the spin ice rule in insulating Dy2Ti2O7 can lead to a charge response in the Bi2Ir2O7 conducting layer that can be detected as anomalous magnetoresistance. These results demonstrate a novel and feasible interfacial approach for electronically probing exotic spin states in insulating magnets, laying out a blueprint for the metallization of frustrated quantum magnets.

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