Nic Shannon - Electromagnetism on Ice : from quantum spin ice to protons in water ice
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It has been known since the pioneering work of Bernal, Fowler and Pauling that hexagonal water ice is the architype of a frustrated material : a proton-bonded network in which protons satisfy strong local constraints - the "ice rules" - but do not order.