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Arrays of coupled nanomagnets have wide-ranging fundamental and practical applications in artificial spin ices, neuromorphic computing and spintronics. However, lacking in these fields are nanomagnets with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy…

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

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 investigate the design of magnetic ordering in one-dimensional mesoscopic magnetic Ising chains by modulating long-range interactions. These interactions are affected by geometrical modifications to the chain, which adjust the energy…

We investigate numerically the micromagnetic properties and the low-energy physics of an artificial square spin system in which the nanomagnets are physically connected at the lattice vertices. Micromagnetic simulations reveal that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Yann Perrin , Benjamin Canals , Nicolas Rougemaille

Spin and spatial dimensionalities are universal concepts, essential for describing both phase transitions and dynamics in magnetic materials. Lately, these ideas have been adopted to describe magnetic properties of metamaterials, as well as…

Using extensive numerical simulations, we probe the magnetization switching in two-dimensional artificial spin ice (ASI) system consisting of peanut-shaped nanomagnets. We also investigated the effect of the external magnetic field on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Avinash Chaurasiya , Manish Anand , Rajdeep Singh Rawat

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

In the present Letter we discuss the origin of the vertex population inversion observed experimentally in the mediated Artificial Square Ice. An interaction modifier is a disc-shaped magnetic nanoisland (a dot) which is placed at the center…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-13 Francesco Caravelli

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

After removal of an applied magnetic field, artificial square spin ice can be left in a metastable remanent state, with nonzero residual magnetization and excess energy above the ground state. Using a model of magnetic islands with dipoles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 G. M. Wysin

Frustration in the presence of competing interactions is ubiquitous in the physical sciences and is a source of degeneracy and disorder, giving rise to new and interesting physical phenomena. Perhaps nowhere does it occur more simply than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Cristiano Nisoli , Roderich Moessner , Peter Schiffer

In this work, we show that, due to the alternating orientation of the spins in the ground state of the artificial square spin ice, the influence of a set of spins at a certain distance of a reference spin decreases faster than the expected…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-31 C. W. Morais , D. N. de Freitas , A. L. Mota , E. C. Bastone

The interplay between topology and energy-hierarchy plays a vital role in the collective magnetic order in artificial ferroic systems. Here we investigate, experimentally, the effect of having one or two activation energies of interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Henry Stopfel , Unnar B. Arnalds , Aaron Stein , Thomas P. A. Hase , Björgvin Hjörvarsson , Vassilios Kapaklis

It was experimentally observed that both magnetic anisotropy and spin-orbit interaction strength change when the magnetization of the nanomagnet is reversed. This indicates a variation in spin-orbit interaction strength depending on whether…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Vadym Zayets

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

We present a novel approach to spin manipulation in atomic-scale nanostructures. Our ab initio calculations clearly demonstrate that it is possible to tune magnetic properties of sub-nanometer structures by adjusting the geometry of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. O. Brovko , P. A. Ignatiev , V. S. Stepanyuk , P. Bruno

For over ten years, arrays of interacting single-domain nanomagnets, referred to as artificial spin ices, have been engineered with the aim to study frustration in model spin systems. Here, we use Fresnel imaging to study the reversal…

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

Dynamical effects under geometrical frustration are considered in a model for artificial spin ice on a square lattice in two dimensions. Each island of the spin ice has a three-component Heisenberg-like dipole moment subject to shape…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 G. M. Wysin , W. A. Moura-Melo , L. A. S. Mól , A. R. Pereira