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We map a geometrically frustrated Ising system with transversal field generated quantum dynamics to a strongly anisotropic lattice of non-crossing elastic strings. The combined effect of frustration, quantum and thermal spin fluctuations is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ying Jiang , Thorsten Emig

We present a method to analyze magnetic properties of frustrated Ising spin models on specific hierarchical lattices with random dilution. Disorder is induced by dilution and geometrical frustration rather than randomness in the internal…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-08-13 Jean-Yves Fortin

Artificial Spin Ices are two dimensional arrays of magnetic, interacting nano-structures whose geometry can be chosen at will, and whose elementary degrees of freedom can be characterized directly. They were introduced at first to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Cristiano Nisoli

It has long been known that disorder, perturbing the energy landscape of magnetic systems, can introduce glassy dynamics. However, the controlled role of increasing disorder in driving glass formation remains difficult to isolate in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Davis Crater , Ryan Mueller , Sanjib Thapa , Kevin Hofhuis , Armin Kleibert , Francesco Caravelli , Alan Farhan

The antiferromagnetic Ising model on a triangular lattice (AFIT) exemplifies the most classical frustration system, arising from its triangular geometry that prevents all interactions from being simultaneously satisfied. Understanding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Ke Wang , Xing-Jian Liu , Li-Ming Tu , Jia-Jie Zhang , Vladimir N. Gladilin , Jun-Yi Ge

Besides being a fascinating class of new materials, magnetic molecules provide the opportunity to study concepts of condensed matter physics in zero dimensions. This contribution will exemplify the impact of molecular magnetism on concepts…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-09 J. Schnack

Artificial spin ices were originally introduced as analogs of the pyrochlore spin ices, but have since become a much richer field . The original attraction of building nanotechnological analogs of the pyrochlores were threefold: to allow…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-03 Christopher Marrows

Patterning nanomagnets in three-dimensions presents a new paradigm in condensed matter physics and allows access to a plethora of fundamental phenomena including robust spin textures, magnetic metamaterials that are home to defects carrying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Andrew May , Matthew Hunt , Arjen Van Den Berg , Alaa Hejazi , Sam Ladak

Geometrical designs of interacting nanomagnets have been studied extensively in the form of two dimensional arrays called artificial spin ice. These systems are usually designed to create geometrical frustration and are of interest for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Rehana Begum Popy , Julia Frank , Robert L. Stamps

Artificial spin ices provide a controlled platform for investigating diverse physical phenomena, such as geometric frustration, magnetic monopoles, and phase transitions, via deliberate design. Here, we introduce a novel approach by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Zixiong Yuan , Wen-Cheng Yue , Peiyuan Huang , Yang-Yang Lyu , Sining Dong , Ying Dong , Huabing Wang , Peiheng Wu , Yong-Lei Wang

As Phil Anderson noted long ago, frustration can be generally defined by measuring the fluctuations in the coupling energy across a plane boundary between two large blocks of material. Since that time, a number of groups have studied the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-08-12 D. L. Stein

Investigating the emergence of complexity in disordered interacting systems, central to fields like spin glass physics, remains challenging due to difficulties in systematic experimental tuning. We introduce a tunable artificial spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Vinayak Shantaram Bhat , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch

Magnetricity- the magnetic equivalent of electricity- was recently verified experimentally for the first time. Indeed, just as the stream of electric charges produces electric current, emergent magnetic monopoles have been observed to roam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-17 R. P. Loreto , L. A. Morais , R. C. Silva , F. S. Nascimento , C. I. L. de Araujo , L. A. S. Mól , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

A non-technical introduction to the theory of magnets with strong geometric frustration is given, concentrating on magnets on corner-sharing (kagome, pyrochlore, SCGO and GGG) lattices. Their rich behaviour is traced back to a large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Moessner

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 concept of geometrical frustration has led to rich insights into condensed matter physics, especially as a mechansim to produce exotic low energy states of matter. Here we show that frustration provides a natural vehicle to generate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-17 Paul A. McClarty , Masudul Haque , Arnab Sen , Johannes Richter

Artificial spin ice has become a valuable tool for understanding magnetic interactions on a microscopic level. The strength in the approach lies in the ability of a synthetic array of nanoscale magnets to mimic crystalline materials,…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-23 Stephen A. Daunheimer , Olga Petrova , Oleg Tchernyshyov , John Cumings

Artificial spin ices are frustrated spin systems that can be engineered, wherein fine tuning of geometry and topology has allowed the design and characterization of exotic emergent phenomena at the constituent level. Here we report a…

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of spin supersolids in frustrated quantum magnets, establishing a material-based platform for supersolidity beyond its original context in solid helium. A spin supersolid is characterized by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-26 Yixuan Huang , Seiji Yunoki , Sadamichi Maekawa

Geometric frustration appears in a broad range of systems, generally emerging as disordered ground configurations, thereby impeding understanding of the phenomenon's underlying mechanics. We report on a continuum system featuring locally…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Janav P. Udani , Andres F. Arrieta