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Artificial spin ices (ASI) are arrays of single domain nano-magnetic islands, arranged in geometries that give rise to frustrated magnetostatic interactions. It is possible to reach their ground state via thermal annealing. We have made…

Direct detection of spontaneous spin fluctuations, or "magnetization noise", is emerging as a powerful means of revealing and studying magnetic excitations in both natural and artificial frustrated magnets. Depending on the lattice and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 M. Goryca , X. Zhang , J. Ramberger , J. D. Watts , C. Nisoli , C. Leighton , P. Schiffer , S. A. Crooker

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…

Geometrical frustration in magnetic materials often gives rise to exotic, low-temperature states of matter, like the ones observed in spin ices. Here we report the imaging of the magnetic states of a thermally-active artificial magnetic ice…

We present flatspin, a novel simulator for systems of interacting mesoscopic spins on a lattice, also known as artificial spin ice (ASI). Our magnetic switching criteria enables ASI dynamics to be captured in a dipole model. Through GPU…

We study the low-temperature physics of the $SU(2)$-symmetric spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a pyrochlore lattice and find fingerprint evidence for the thermal spin-ice state in this frustrated quantum magnet. Our conclusions are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-04 Yuan Huang , Kun Chen , Youjin Deng , Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

We report on the study of the thermal dynamics of square artificial spin ice, probed by means of temperature and frequency dependent AC susceptibility. Pronounced influence of the inter-island coupling strength was found on the frequency…

Artificial spin ices are arrays of correlated nano-scale magnetic islands that prove an excellent playground in which to study the role of topology in critical phenomena. Here, we investigate a continuum of spin ice geometries,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Gavin M. Macauley , Gary W. Paterson , Yue Li , Rair Macêdo , Stephen McVitie , Robert L. Stamps

We present a parametric study of the diffuse magnetic scattering at (1/2,1/2,1/2) positions in reciprocal space, ascribed to a frozen antiferromagnetic spin ice state in single crystalline Tb2Ti2O7. Our high-resolution neutron scattering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-18 K. Fritsch , E. Kermarrec , K. A. Ross , Y. Qiu , J. R. D. Copley , D. Pomaranski , J. B. Kycia , H. A. Dabkowska , B. D. Gaulin

In order to explain and predict the properties of many physical systems, it is essential to understand the interplay of different energy-scales. Here we present investigations of the magnetic order in thermalised artificial spin ice…

Artificial spin ice (ASI) systems exhibit fascinating phenomena, such as frustration and the formation of magnetic monopole states, and Dirac strings. However, exploring the wave phenomena in these systems is elusive due to the weak dipolar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Syamlal Sankaran Kunnath , Mateusz Zelent , Pawel Gruszecki , Maciej Krawczyk

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 magnetic honeycomb lattices are expected to exhibit a broad and tunable range of novel magnetic phenomena that would be difficult to achieve in natural materials, such as long-range spin ice, entropy-driven magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-20 B. Summers , L. Debeer-Schmitt , A. Dahal , A. Glavic , P. Kampschroeder , J. Gunasekera , D. K. Singh

The results of a numerical study of an ordered substitution of a double-segment into the unit cell of square artificial spin ice are presented. Each pattern vertex has three magnetic moment configurations that compete to form a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Ali Frotanpour , Lance E. DeLong

Harnessing high-frequency spin dynamics in three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures may lead to paradigm-shifting, next generation devices including high density spintronics and neuromorphic systems. Despite remarkable progress in fabrication,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Sourav Sahoo , Andrew May , Arjen van Den Berg , Amrit Kumar Mondal , Sam Ladak , Anjan Barman

Control of the spin wave dynamics in nanomagnetic elements is very important for the realization of a broad range of novel magnonic devices. Here we study experimentally the spin wave resonance in thick ferromagnetic rings (100 nm) using…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Xue Zhou , Elena Tartakovskaya , Gleb Kakazei , Adekunle Adeyeye

The magnetic behavior of a mixed Ising ferrimagnetic system on a square lattice, in which the two interpenetrating square sublattices have spins +- 1/2 and spins +-1,0, in the presence of an oscillating magnetic field has been studied with…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 G. M. Buendia , E. Machado

Artificial spin ices are metamaterials that can host several ferromagnetic resonances as well as spin waves. As the field advances towards the creation of three-dimensional geometries, a trilayer square artificial spin ice has been already…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 V. Vanga , G. Alatteili , E. Iacocca

Artificial spin ices (ASIs) are interacting arrays of lithographically-defined nanomagnets in which novel frustrated magnetic phases can be intentionally designed. A key emergent description of fundamental excitations in ASIs is that of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 M. Goryca , X. Zhang , J. Li , A. L. Balk , J. D. Watts , C. Leighton , C. Nisoli , P. Schiffer , S. A. Crooker

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