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Frustrated spin-ice systems support emergent gauge fields and fractionalized quasiparticles that act as magnetic monopoles. Although artificial platforms have enabled their direct visualization, access to their quantum-coherent dynamics has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-20 Krzysztof Giergiel , Piotr Surówka

We demonstrate that it is possible to realize vortex ice states that are analogous to square and kagome ice. With numerical simulations, we show that the system can be brought into a state that obeys either global or local ice rules by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Libal , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

We examine square and kagome artificial spin ice for colloids confined in arrays of double-well traps. Unlike magnetic artificial spin ices, colloidal and vortex artificial spin ice realizations allow creation of doping sites through double…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-19 A. Libal , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

Magnetic charge propagation in bulk frustrated materials has yielded a paradigm-shift in science, allowing the symmetry between electricity and magnetism to be studied. Recent work is now suggesting magnetic charge dynamics upon the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Andrew May , Michael Saccone , Arjen van den Berg , Joseph Askey , Matthew Hunt , Sam Ladak

Artificial spin ice has been recently implemented in two-dimensional arrays of mesoscopic magnetic wires. We propose a theoretical model of magnetization dynamics in artificial spin ice under the action of an applied magnetic field.…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-29 Paula Mellado , Olga Petrova , Yichen Shen , Oleg Tchernyshyov

Magnetic properties of the spin-1/2 kagome-like compound volborthite are studied using a high-quality polycrystalline sample. It is evidenced from magnetization and specific heat measurements that the spins on the kagome lattice still…

We show that in colloidal models of artificial kagome and modified square ice systems, a variety of ordering and disordering regimes occur as a function of biasing field, temperature, and colloid-colloid interaction strength, including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. J. Olson Reichhardt , A. Libal , C. Reichhardt

We present numerical studies of dipolar spin ice in the presence of a magnetic field slightly tilted away from the [111] axis. We find a first-order transition from a kagome ice to a $\mathbf{q}=$X state when the external field is tilted…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-08 Wen-Han Kao , Peter Holdsworth , Ying-Jer Kao

Geometrical frustration arised in spin ices leads to fascinating emergent physical properties. Nowadays there is a wide diversity of the artificial structures, mimicking spin ice at the nanoscale and demonstrating some new effects. Most of…

Artificial spin ice, arrays of strongly interacting nanomagnets, are complex magnetic systems with many emergent properties, rich microstate spaces, intrinsic physical memory, high-frequency dynamics in the GHz range and compatibility with…

Artificial spin ice systems are metamaterials composed of interacting nanomagnets arranged on a lattice, exhibiting geometrical frustration and emergent phenomena such as monopole excitations. We explore magnetization dynamics and monopole…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Julia Frank , Johan van Lierop , Robert L. Stamps

Artificial spin ice systems have seen burgeoning interest due to their intriguing physics and potential applications in reprogrammable memory, logic and magnonics. Integration of artificial spin ice with functional magnonics is a relatively…

We study an artificial spin ice system consisting of two identical layers separated by a height offset $h$. For small separation, the layers are shown to attract each other, provided the whole system is in the ground state. Such an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Fabio S. Nascimento , Afranio R. Pereira , Winder A. Moura-Melo

Domain wall propagation dynamics have been studied in nanostructured artificial kagome spin ice structures. A stripline circuit has been used to provide localised pulsed magnetic fields within the artificial spin ice structure. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 D. M. Burn , M. Chadha , W. R. Branford

Magnetic analogue of an isolated free electric charge, i.e., a magnet with a single north or south pole, is a long sought-after particle which remains elusive so far. In magnetically frustrated pyrochlore solids, a classical analogue of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 N. Keswani , R. Lopes , Y. Nakajima , R. Singh , N. Chauhan , T. Som , S. Kumar , A. R. Pereira , P. Das

Topological phases of spin liquids with constrained disorder can host a kinetics of fractionalized excitations. However, spin-liquid phases with distinct kinetic regimes have proven difficult to observe experimentally. Here we present a…

This work makes a theoretical study of the dynamics of emergent elemental excitations in artificial spin ice systems with hexagonal geometry during the magnetic reversion of the system. The magnetic and physical parameters of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Alejandra Leon

A promising route to realize entangled magnetic states combines geometrical frustration with quantum-tunneling effects. Spin-ice materials are canonical examples of frustration, and Ising spins in a transverse magnetic field are the…

Collective dynamics in lithographically-defined artificial spin ices offer profound insights into emergent correlations and phase transitions of geometrically-frustrated Ising spin systems. Their temporal and spatial evolution are often…

Spin ices are exotic phases of matter characterized by frustrated spins obeying local ice rules, in analogy with the electric dipoles in water ice. In two dimensions, one can similarly define ice rules for in-plane Ising-like spins arranged…