Unveiling Magnetic Frustration via the Elastocaloric Effect (opens in new tab)

Motivated by experimental progress in pressure and strain tuning of quantum materials, we examine the thermodynamic response of frustrated magnets to uniaxial strain. Specifically, we study Ising and Heisenberg models on spatially anisotropic triangular (and, for the Ising model, also kagome) lattices. We determine the entropy as a function of temperature and strain, and use it to compute the elastic Gr\"uneisen ratio $\eta$. The Ising models ca...