Reply to "Comment on: 'Case for a U(1)$_\pi$ Quantum Spin Liquid Ground State in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore $\mathrm{Ce}_2\mathrm{Zr}_2\mathrm{O}_7$' "
In his comment [arXiv:2209.03235], S. W. Lovesey argues that our analysis of neutron scattering experiments performed on Ce$_2$Zr$_2$O$_7$ is invalid. Lovesey argues that we have not properly accounted for the higher-order multipolar contributions to the magnetic scattering and that our use of pseud...
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Zusammenfassung: | In his comment [arXiv:2209.03235], S. W. Lovesey argues that our analysis of
neutron scattering experiments performed on Ce$_2$Zr$_2$O$_7$ is invalid.
Lovesey argues that we have not properly accounted for the higher-order
multipolar contributions to the magnetic scattering and that our use of
pseudospin-$1/2$ operators to describe the scattering is inappropriate. In this
reply, we show that the multipolar corrections discussed by Lovesey only become
significant at scattering wavevectors exceeding those accessed in our
experiments. This in no way contradicts or undermines our work, which never
claimed a direct observation of scattering from higher-order multipoles. We
further show that Lovesey's objections to our use of pseudospins are unfounded,
and that the pseudospin operators are able to describe all magnetic scattering
processes at the energy scale of our experiments, far below the crystal field
gap. Finally, we comment on certain assumptions in Lovesey's calculations of
the scattering amplitude which are inconsistent with experiment. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2209.14956 |