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Electronic transport probes a hidden state

Electronic transport measurements of the anomalous Hall effect can probe properties of a frustrated kagome spin ice that are hidden from conventional thermodynamic and magnetic probes.

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Fig. 1: Schematic of the anomalous Hall effect in a frustrated spin system.

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Liu, E. Electronic transport probes a hidden state. Nat. Phys. 20, 356–357 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02382-z

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