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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

Collective dynamics in lithographically-defined artificial spin ices offer profound insights into emergent correlations and phase transitions of geometrically-frustrated Ising spin systems. Their temporal and spatial evolution are often…

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

The notion of "half fire, half ice" was recently introduced to describe an exotic macroscopic ground-state degeneracy emerging in a ferrimagnet under the critical magnetic field, in which the "hot" spins are fully disordered on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-21 Weiguo Yin , A. M. Tsvelik

Competing ground states may lead to topologically constrained excitations such as domain walls or quasiparticles, which govern metastable states and their dynamics. Domain walls and more exotic topological excitations are well studied in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Carl Merrigan , Cristiano Nisoli , Yair Shokef

In this work we study demagnetization protocols for an artificial spin ice in a triangular geometry. Our results show that a simple hysteresis-like process is very efficient in driving the system to its ground state, even for a relatively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-15 J. H. Rodrigues , L. A. S. Mól , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

We develop a self-contained theoretical framework that classifies the topological phases and critical phenomena of classical pyrochlore magnets with arbitrary spin $S$, subject to competing exchange and single-ion anisotropies. In the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-07 Sena Watanabe , Yukitoshi Motome , Haruki Watanabe

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…

We study the nearest-neighbor spin-ice model subjected to a magnetic field applied along the global [111] and [110] directions, focusing on the role of sample geometry in stabilizing topological phase transitions. While no Kasteleyn…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-30 R. A. Borzi , E. S. Loscar , S. A. Grigera

We use Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the thermodynamical behaviour of aggregates consisting of few superparamagnetic particles in a colloidal suspension. The potential energy surface of this classical two-level system with a stable…

Motivated by the recent realization of an artificial quantum spin ice in an array of superconducting qubits with tunable parameters [King {\it et al.}, Science 373, 576 (2021)], we scrutinize a quantum six vertex model on the square lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-01 Márk Kondákor , Karlo Penc

We report here numerical results of the low-temperature behavior of a dipolar spin ice in a magnetic field along the [100] direction. Tuning the magnetic field, the system exhibit a half-magnetization plateau at low temperature. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-16 Sheng-Ching Lin , Ying-Jer Kao

An effective Ising model for the spin-ice type Kondo lattice model is investigated by the classical Monte Carlo simulation. We clarify the magnetic phase diagram with four phases: ice-ferro, ice-(0,0,2\pi), 32-sublattice, and all-in/all-out…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-29 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Masafumi Udagawa , Yukitoshi Motome

A few paradigmatic one-dimensional lattice-statistical spin models have recently attracted a vigorous scientific interest owing to their peculiar thermodynamic behavior, which is highly reminiscent of a temperature-driven phase transition.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-17 Jozef Strecka

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

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

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-1/2 Ising model and spin-1 Blume-Capel model in an hexagonal nanowire structure under the presence of crystal field is considered. The free energy is obtained through the transfer matrix technique, which is solved…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-02 R. A. Pimenta , O. Rojas , S. M. de Souza

In this work we propose and study a realization of an artificial spin ice-like system, not based on any real material, in a triangular geometry. At each vertex of the lattice, the "ice-like rule" dictates that three spins must point inward…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-17 L. A. S. Mól , A. R. Pereira , W. A. Moura-Melo

In this work, we study the thermodynamic properties of a spin-1 Bose gas across the Bose-Einstein condensation transition. We present the theoretical description of the thermodynamics of a trapped ideal spin-1 Bose gas and we describe the…