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Spin ice in a magnetic field in the [111] direction displays two magnetization plateaux, one at saturation and an intermediate one with finite entropy. We study the crossovers between the different regimes from a point of view of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Isakov , K. S. Raman , R. Moessner , S. L. Sondhi

Using numerical simulations that mimic recent experiments on hexagonal colloidal ice, we show that colloidal hexagonal artificial spin ice exhibits an inner phase within its ice state that has not been observed previously. Under increasing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-17 A. Libal , C. Nisoli , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

The complexity embedded in condensed matter fertilizes the discovery of new states of matter, enriched by ingredients like frustration. Illustrating examples in magnetic systems are Kitaev spin liquids, skyrmions phases, or spin ices. These…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-10 E. Lefrançois , V. Cathelin , E. Lhotel , J. Robert , P. Lejay , C. V. Colin , B. Canals , F. Damay , J. Ollivier , B. Fåk , L. C. Chapon , R. Ballou , V. Simonet

In this letter, we have constructed and experimentally investigated frustrated arrays of dipoles forming two-dimensional artificial spin ices with different lattice parameters (rectangular arrays with horizontal and vertical lattice…

Magnetic monopoles, long hypothesised as fundamental particles carrying isolated magnetic charge, emerge in spin-ice systems as fractionalised excitations governed by the ice rule. Yet their three-dimensional field structure has never been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Arjen van den Berg , Peter Rickhaus , Frank Barrows , Cristiano Nisoli , Sam Ladak

Extensive work on single molecule magnets has identified a fundamental mode of relaxation arising from the nuclear-spin assisted quantum tunnelling of nearly independent and quasi-classical magnetic dipoles. Here we show that nuclear-spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-28 C. Paulsen , S. R. Giblin , E. Lhotel , D. Prabhakaran , K. Matsuhira , G. Balakrishnan , S. T. Bramwell

Artificial spin ice provides a versatile setting for emergent gauge fields and magnetic monopole excitations. Here we propose a driven-dissipative polariton realization of artificial spin ice, in which the circular polarization of each link…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Junhui Cao , Alexey Kavokin

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

Artificial spin ices (ASIs) provide a versatile platform to explore magnetic frustration and emergent phenomena. However, in kagome ASI, experimental access to the ground state remains elusive due to dynamical freezing. Here, we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 D. Pecchio , S. Sahoo , V. Scagnoli , L. J. Heyderman

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

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 is a frustrated magnetic two-dimensional nano-material, recently employed to study variety of tailor-designed unusual collective behaviours. Recently proposed extensions to three dimensions are based on self-assembly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-03 Gia-Wei Chern , Charles Reichhardt , Cristiano Nisoli

Applied magnetic fields are an important tuning parameter for artificial spin ice (ASI) systems, as they can drive phase transitions between different magnetic ground states, or tune through regimes with high populations of emergent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 M. Goryca , X. Zhang , J. D. Watts , C. Nisoli , C. Leighton , P. Schiffer , S. A. Crooker

We propose a classical model Hamiltonian with a ground state presenting a spin ice structure. We analyze the introduction of metastable excitations on this ground state, showing the emergence of pairs of magnetic monopoles. The interaction…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-15 J. E. da Fonseca , C. W. Morais , A. L. Mota , L. H. C. M. Nunes

Magnetization dynamics in an artificial square spin-ice lattice made of Ni80Fe20 with magnetic field applied in the lattice plane is investigated by broadband ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy. The experimentally observed dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-03 M. B. Jungfleisch , W. Zhang , E. Iacocca , J. Sklenar , J. Ding , W. Jiang , S. Zhang , J. E. Pearson , V. Novosad , J. B. Ketterson , O. Heinonen , A. Hoffmann

The energetics of thin elongated ferromagnetic nano-islands is considered for some different shapes, aspect ratios, and applied magnetic field directions. These nano-island particles are important for artificial spin-ice materials. For low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-11 G. M. Wysin , W. A. Moura-Melo , L. A. S. Mól , A. R. Pereira

Artificial spin ices are periodic arrangements of interacting nanomagnets successfully used to investigate emergent phenomena in the presence of geometric frustration. Recently, it has been shown that artificial spin ices can be used as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Susmita Saha , Jingyuan Zhou , Kevin Hofhuis , Attila Kákay , Valerio Scagnoli , Laura J. Heyderman , Sebastian Gliga

Artificial spin ice systems have been introduced as a possible mean to investigate frustration effects in a well-controlled manner by fabricating lithographically-patterned two-dimensional arrangements of interacting magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Yann Perrin , Benjamin Canals , Nicolas Rougemaille

A hybrid spin-electron system on one-dimensional tetrahedral chain, in which the localized Ising spin regularly alternates with the mobile electron delocalized over three lattice sites, is exactly investigated using the generalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-09 Lucia Gálisová , Jozef Strečka

Artificial spin ice arrays of micromagnetic islands are a means of engineering additional energy scales and frustration into magnetic materials. Despite much progress in elucidating the properties of such arrays, the `spins' in the systems…