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Artificial spin ice is a special class of engineered lattice of highly shape anisotropic single domain magnetic nanostructures which is used as one of the model systems to study the spin ice behavior observed in pyrochlore oxides. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Nimisha Arora , Pintu Das

We study the quantum dynamics of fractional excitations in quantum spin ice. We focus on the density of states in the two-monopole sector, $\rho(\omega)$, as this can be connected to the wavevector-integrated dynamical structure factor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Masafumi Udagawa , Roderich Moessner

A mixed spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 Ising model on a decorated square lattice with a nearest- neighbor interaction, next-nearest-neighbor bilinear interaction, three-site four-spin in- teraction and single-ion anisotropy is exactly investigated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-23 Viliam Štubňa , Michal Jaščur

Artificial spin ice (ASI) are arrays on nanoscaled magnets that can serve both as models for frustration in atomic spin ice as well as for exploring new spin-wave-based strategies to transmit, process, and store information. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Sergi Lendinez , Mojtaba T. Kaffash , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch

The triangular-lattice system $\alpha$-RuI$_3$ is isostructural to the widely-studied $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ compound which was identified as a potential Kitaev system but exhibits, instead of spin liquid behaviour, a magnetically ordered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-07 Hank C. H. Wu , Benjamin M. Huddart , Francis L. Pratt , Danrui Ni , Robert J. Cava , Stephen J. Blundell

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 ices are ensembles of geometrically-arranged, interacting nanomagnets which have shown promising potential for the realization of reconfigurable magnonic crystals. Such systems allow for the manipulation of spin waves on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Ezio Iacocca , Sebastian Gliga , Olle Heinonen

We study a frustrated dipolar array recently manufactured lithographically by Wang {\em et al.} [Nature {\bf 439}, 303 (2006)] in order to realize the square ice model in an artificial structure. We discuss models for thermodynamics and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gunnar Moller , R. Moessner

Artificial spin ices (ASI), containing magnetic monopole quasi-particles emerging at room temperature, have been investigated as a promising system to be applied in alternative low-power information technology devices. However, restrictions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 D. G. Duarte , S. F. de Souza , L. B. de Oliveira , E. B. M. Junior , E. N. D. de Araujo , J. M. Fonseca , C. I. L. de Araujo

We consider a pure square spin ice, that is a square ice where only nearest neighbors are coupled. A gauge-free duality between the perpendicular and collinear structure leads to a natural description in terms of topological currents and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-18 Cristiano Nisoli

Motivated by recent developments in magnetic materials, frustrated nanoarrays and cold atomic systems, we investigate the behaviour of dipolar spins on the frustrated two-dimensional kagome lattice. By combining the Luttinger-Tisza…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 Mykola Maksymenko , V. Ravi Chandra , Roderich Moessner

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…

It has been proposed recently \cite{son} that excitations in Spin Ice can be of the form of magnetic monopoles that does not obey the Dirac Quantization Condition. It is also well known \cite{rj} that the above scenario leads to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-01-24 Subir Ghosh

We demonstrate the use of an external field to stabilize and control defect lines connecting topological monopoles in spin ice. For definiteness we perform Brownian dynamics simulations with realistic units mimicking experimentally realized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-18 A. Libal , C. Nisoli , C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

We study the low-temperature behaviour of spin ice when uniaxial pressure induces a tetragonal distortion. There is a phase transition between a Coulomb liquid and a fully magnetised phase. Unusually, it combines features of discontinuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-07 Ludovic D. C. Jaubert , J. T. Chalker , Peter C. W. Holdsworth , R. Moessner

3D nano-architectures present a new paradigm in modern condensed matter physics with numerous applications in photonics, biomedicine, and spintronics. They are promising for the realisation of 3D magnetic nano-networks for ultra-fast and…

We provide experimental and numerical evidence for thermal excitations within and among magnetic mesospins, forming artificial spin ice structures. At low temperatures, a decrease in magnetization and increase in susceptibility is observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Björn Erik Skovdal , Samuel D. Slöetjes , Merlin Pohlit , Henry Stopfel , Vassilios Kapaklis , Björgvin Hjörvarsson

The mixed-spin Ising model on a decorated square lattice with two different decorating spins of the integer magnitudes S_B = 1 and S_C = 2 placed on horizontal and vertical bonds of the lattice, respectively, is examined within an exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lucia Canova , Jozef Strecka , Michal Jascur

We map the ground-state ensemble of antiferromagnetic Ising model of spin-S on a triangular lattice to an interface model whose entropic fluctuations are proposed to be described by an effective Gaussian free energy, which enables us to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Zeng , C. L. Henley

We theoretically investigate spin-resolved thermoelectric transport in a triangular ladder geometry hosting antiferromagnetic spin alignment, where lattice topology and magnetic ordering jointly enable highly efficient spin-selective energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Ranjini Bhattacharya , Souvik Roy