Publications

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R. Schäfer
Magnetic frustration in three dimensions
Dissertation published via TU Dresden (2022)

E. M. Smith, A. Fitterman, R. Schäfer, et al.
Two-Peak Heat Capacity Accounts for R\ln(2) Entropy and Ground State Access in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore Ce₂Hf₂O₇
arXiv:2501.08327 (2025)
E. M. Smith, R. Schäfer, et al.
Single Crystal Diffuse Neutron Scattering Study of the Dipole-Octupole Quantum Spin Ice Candidate Ce₂Zr₂O₇: No Apparent Octupolar Correlations Above T = 0.05 K
Phys. Rev. X 15, 021033 (2025)
R. Schäfer, and D. J. Luitz
DanceQ: High-performance library for number conserving bases
SciPost Phys. Codebases 48 (2025)
DanceQ repository and DanceQ documentation

Z. Lu, R. Schäfer, J. N. Hallén, C. R. Laumann
[111]-strained spin ice: Localization of thermodynamically deconfined monopoles
Phys. Rev. B 110, 184421 (2024)
D. Yahne, B. Placke, R. Schäfer, et al.
Dipolar spin ice regime proximate to an all-in-all-out Néel ground state in the dipolar-octupolar pyrochlore Ce₂Sn₂O₇
Phys. Rev. X 14, 011005 (2024)

J. Beare, E. M. Smith, J. Dudemaine, R. Schäfer, et al.
μSR Study of the Dipole-Octupole Quantum Spin Ice Candidate Ce₂Zr₂O₇
Phys. Rev. B 108, 174411 (2023)
E. M. Smith, J. Dudemaine, B. Placke, R. Schäfer, et al.
Quantum Spin Ice Response to a Magnetic Field in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore Ce₂Zr₂O₇
Phys. Rev. B 108, 054438 (2023)
R. Schäfer, B. Placke, O. Benton, and R. Moessner
Abundance of hard-hexagon crystals in the quantum pyrochlore antiferromagnet
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 096702 (2023)

R. Schäfer, J. C. Budich, and D. J. Luitz
Symmetry protected exceptional points of interacting fermions
Phys. Rev. Research 4, 033181 (2022)
I. Hagymási, R. Schäfer, R. Moessner, and D. J. Luitz
Magnetization process and ordering of the S=1/2 pyrochlore Heisenberg antiferromagnet in a magnetic field
Phys. Rev. B 106, L060411 (2022)
E. Smith, O. Benton, D. Yahne, B. Placke, R. Schäfer, et al.
The case for a U(1)π Quantum Spin Liquid Ground State in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore Ce₂Zr₂O₇
Phys. Rev. X 12, 021015 (2022)

I. Hagymási, R. Schäfer, R. Moessner, and D. J. Luitz
Possible Inversion Symmetry Breaking in the S=1/2 Pyrochlore Heisenberg Magnet
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117204 (2021)

R. Schäfer, I. Hagymási, R. Moessner, and D. J. Luitz
Pyrochlore S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet at finite temperature
Phys. Rev. B 102, 054408 (2020)

R. Schäfer, G. S. Uhrig, and J. Stolze
Time-crystalline behavior in an engineered spin chain
Phys. Rev. B 100, 184301 (2019)