Multiple energy-scales in vertex-frustrated mesospin systems
Abstract
The interplay between topology and energy-hierarchy plays a vital role in the collective magnetic order in artificial ferroic systems. Here we investigate, experimentally, the effect of having one or two activation energies of interacting Ising-like magnetic islands -- mesospins -- in thermalized, vertex-frustrated lattices. The thermally arrested magnetic states of the elements were determined using synchrotron-based magnetic microscopy after cooling the samples from temperatures above the Curie temperature of the material. Statistical analysis of the correlations between mesospins across several length-scales, reveals changes in the magnetic order, reflecting the amount of ground state plaquettes realized for a vertex-frustrated lattice. We show that the latter depends on the presence, or not, of different activation energies.
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@article{arxiv.2106.10510,
title = {Multiple energy-scales in vertex-frustrated mesospin systems},
author = {Henry Stopfel and Unnar B. Arnalds and Aaron Stein and Thomas P. A. Hase and Björgvin Hjörvarsson and Vassilios Kapaklis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.10510},
year = {2021}
}
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10 pages, 8 figures