Specific heat data for the publication "Neutron scattering and thermodynamic evidence for emergent photons and fractionalization in a pyrochlore spin ice"

Context and methodology

This repository contains the low-temperature specific heat data behind Figure 5 in the publication "Neutron scattering and thermodynamic evidence for emergent photons and fractionalization in a pyrochlore spin ice" (10.1038/s41567-025-02922-9).

The publication presents and discusses polarized neutron scattering experiments and heat capacity measurements on single crystals of the Ce2Zr2O7 pyrochlore, and compares the results with theoretical calculations.

This dataset was created manually by collecting and ordering the relevant data.

Technical details

Data files are of type DAT (text files) and named logically after the figure they correspond to. 

The dataset does not require any specific software for reading.

Description of the data

fig5.dat contains the specific heat ("C") of Ce2Zr2O7 with an error bar ("C_error") as a function of temperature ("T") with an error bar ("T_error") together with a fit ("T^3 fit") corresponding to a cubic-in-temperature specific heat.