While geometrically frustrated quantum magnets host rich exotic spin states with potentials for revolutionary quantum technologies, most of them are necessarily good insulators which are difficult to be integrated with modern electrical circuit. The grand challenge is to electrically detect the emergent fluctuations and excitations by introducing charge carriers that interact with the localized spins without destroying their collective spin states. Here, we show that, by designing a Bi2Ir2O7/Dy2Ti2O7 heterostructure, the breaking of the spin-ice rule in insulating Dy2Ti2O7 leads to a charge response in the conducting Bi2Ir2O7 measured as anomalous magnetoresistance during the field-induced Kagome ice-to-saturated ice transition. The magnetoresistive anomaly also captures the characteristic angular and temperature dependence of this ice-rule-breaking transition, which has been understood as magnetic monopole condensation. These results demonstrate a novel heteroepitaxial approach for electronically probing the transition between exotic insulating spin states, laying out a blueprint for the metallization of frustrated quantum magnets.

Charles University Prague 11636 Czechia

Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Tennessee Knoxville TN 37996 USA

Department of Physics University of Washington Seattle WA 98195 USA

Materials Science and Technology Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge TN 37831 USA

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Florida State University Tallahassee FL 32310 USA

School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332 USA

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