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Publications: DR John Benton

Smith EM, Fitterman A, Schäfer R, Placke B, Woods A, Lee S, Huang SH-Y, Beare J et al. ( 2025 ) . Two-Peak Heat Capacity Accounts for Rln(2) Entropy and Ground State Access in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore Ce2Hf2O7 . Physical Review Letters vol. 135 , ( 8 )
Paul D, Yadav S, Gupta S, Patra B, Kulkarni N, Mondal D, Gavankar K, Sahu SK et al. ( 2025 ) . Imprinting Electrically Switchable Scalar Spin Chirality by Anisotropic Strain in a Kagome Antiferromagnet . Advanced Science vol. 12 , ( 29 )
Smith EM, Schäfer R, Dudemaine J, Placke B, Morgan Z, Moessner R, Benton O, Bianchi AD ( 2025 ) . Single-Crystal Diffuse Neutron Scattering Study of the Dipole-Octupole Quantum Spin-Ice Candidate Ce2Zr2O7: No Apparent Octupolar Correlations Above T=0.05 K . Physical Review X vol. 15 , ( 2 )
Fancelli A, Flores-Calderón R, Benton O, Lake B, Moessner R ( 2025 ) . Fragile spin liquid in three dimensions . Physical Review B vol. 111 , ( 13 )
Potts M, Moessner R ( 2024 ) . Signatures of Spinon Dynamics and Phase Structure of Dipolar-Octupolar Quantum Spin Ices in Two-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy . Physical Review Letters vol. 133 , ( 22 )
Flores-Calderón R, Benton O ( 2024 ) . Irrational Moments and Signatures of Higher-Rank Gauge Theories in Diluted Classical Spin Liquids . Physical Review Letters vol. 133 , ( 10 )
Yan H, 闫寒, Benton O, Moessner R ( 2024 ) . Classification of classical spin liquids: Typology and resulting landscape . Physical Review B vol. 110 , ( 2 )
Placke B, Moessner R ( 2024 ) . Ising fracton spin liquid on the honeycomb lattice . Physical Review B vol. 110 , ( 2 )
Yan H, 闫寒, Benton O, Nevidomskyy AH ( 2024 ) . Classification of classical spin liquids: Detailed formalism and suite of examples . Physical Review B vol. 109 , ( 17 )
Potts M, Moessner R ( 2024 ) . Exploiting polarization dependence in two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy: Examples of Ce2Zr2O7 and Nd2Zr2O7 . Physical Review B vol. 109 , ( 10 )
Yahne DR, Placke B, Schäfer R, Benton O, Moessner R, Pasco CM, May AF, Frontzek MD ( 2024 ) . Dipolar Spin Ice Regime Proximate to an All-In-All-Out Néel Ground State in the Dipolar-Octupolar Pyrochlore Ce2Sn2O7 . Physical Review X vol. 14 , ( 1 )
Schäfer R, Placke B, Moessner R ( 2023 ) . Abundance of Hard-Hexagon Crystals in the Quantum Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet . Physical Review Letters vol. 131 , ( 9 )
Smith EM, Dudemaine J, Placke B, Schäfer R, DeLazzer T, Fitterman A, Beare J, Buhariwalla CRC et al. ( 2023 ) . Quantum spin ice response to a magnetic field in the dipole-octupole pyrochlore Ce2Zr2O7 . Physical Review B vol. 108 , ( 5 )
Scheie A, Benton O, Taillefumier M, Jaubert LDC, Sala G, Jalarvo N ( 2022 ) . Dynamical Scaling as a Signature of Multiple Phase Competition in Yb2Ti2O7 . Physical Review Letters vol. 129 , ( 21 )
Potts M, Benton O ( 2022 ) . Spin ice in a general applied magnetic field: Kasteleyn transition, magnetic torque, and rotational magnetocaloric effect . Physical Review B vol. 106 , ( 5 )
Smith EM, Benton O, Yahne DR, Placke B, Schäfer R, Gaudet J, Dudemaine J, Fitterman A et al. ( 2022 ) . Case for a U(1)π Quantum Spin Liquid Ground State in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore Ce2Zr2O7 . Physical Review X vol. 12 , ( 2 )
Benton O ( 2021 ) . Topological Route to New and Unusual Coulomb Spin Liquids . Physical Review Letters vol. 127 , ( 10 )
Palle G ( 2021 ) . Exactly solvable spin-12 XYZ models with highly degenerate partially ordered ground states . Physical Review B vol. 103 , ( 21 )
Benton O ( 2021 ) . Ordered ground states of kagome magnets with generic exchange anisotropy . Physical Review B vol. 103 , ( 17 )
Placke B, Moessner R, Benton O ( 2020 ) . Hierarchy of energy scales and field-tunable order by disorder in dipolar-octupolar pyrochlores . Physical Review B vol. 102 , ( 24 )
Benton O ( 2020 ) . Ground-state phase diagram of dipolar-octupolar pyrochlores . Physical Review B vol. 102 , ( 10 )