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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…

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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…

Band topology, or global wave-function structure that enforces novel properties in the bulk and on the surface of crystalline materials, is currently under intense investigations for both fundamental interest and its technological promises.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Weiliang Yao , Chenyuan Li , Lichen Wang , Shangjie Xue , Yang Dan , Kazuki Iida , Kazuya Kamazawa , Kangkang Li , Chen Fang , Yuan Li

Bethe strings are bound states of constituent particles in a variety of interacting many-body one-dimensional (1D) integrable quantum models relevant to magnetism, nanophysics, cold atoms and beyond. As emergent fundamental excitations,…

Artificial spin ices have transcended their origins in frustrated rare-earth pyrochlores to become a versatile platform for engineering exotic states of matter. Across diverse implementations, from nanomagnets and superconducting vortices…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-01 Renaud Baillou , Matthew Terkel , Cristiano Nisoli , Pietro Tierno

The discovery of the topological insulators has fueled a surge of interests in the topological phases in periodic systems. Topological insulators have bulk energy gap and topologically protected gapless edge states. The edge states in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-03 Yi-Dong Wu

A numerical model of interacting nanomagnetic elements is used to demonstrate active inference with a three dimensional Artificial Spin Ice structure. It is shown that thermal fluctuations can drive this magnetic spin system to evolve under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Robert L. Stamps , Rehana Begum Popy , Johan van Lierop

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…

Artificial square spin ices are structures composed of magnetic elements arranged on a geometrically frustrated lattice and located on the sites of a two-dimensional square lattice, such that there are four interacting magnetic elements at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Ezio Iacocca , Sebastian Gliga , Robert L. Stamps , Olle Heinonen

In a quantum spin liquid, the magnetic moments of the constituent electron spins evade classical long-range order to form an exotic state that is quantum entangled and coherent over macroscopic length scales [1-2]. Such phases offer…

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

We have used soft x-ray photoemission electron microscopy to image the magnetization of single domain La$_{0.7}$Sr$_{0.3}$MnO$_{3}$ nano-islands arranged in geometrically frustrated configurations such as square ice and kagome ice…

Artificial spin ice (ASI) represents a class of uniquely structured superlattices comprising geometrically arranged interacting nanomagnets. This arrangement facilitates the exploration of magnetic frustration phenomena and related spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 G. A. Gomez-Iriarte , D. E. Gonzalez-Chavez , R. L. Sommer , J. P. Sinnecker

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

We report the dependence of the magnetization dynamics in a square artificial spin-ice lattice on the in-plane magnetic field angle. Using two complementary measurement techniques - broadband ferromagnetic resonance and micro-focused…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 Sergi Lendinez , Mojtaba Taghipour Kaffash , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch

Artificial spin ice systems, namely lattices of interacting single domain ferromagnetic islands, have been used to date as microscopic models of frustration induced by lattice topology, allowing for the direct visualization of spin…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-03 Antonio Ortiz-Ambriz , Pietro Tierno

We numerically examine the ordering, pinning and flow of superconducting vortices interacting with a Santa Fe artificial ice pinning array. We find that as a function of magnetic field and pinning density, a wide variety of vortex states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-04-23 Wenzhao Li , C. J. O. Reichhardt , B. Jankó , C. Reichhardt

We have measured magnetic-field-induced avalanches in a square artificial spin ice array of interacting nanomagnets. Starting from the ground state ordered configuration, we imaged the individual nanomagnet moments after each successive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 N. S. Bingham , S. Rooke , J. Park , A. Simon , W. Zhu , X. Zhang , J. Batley , J. D. Watts , C. Leighton , K. A. Dahmen , P. Schiffer

Quantum dynamics of strongly correlated systems is a challenging problem. Although the low energy fractional excitations of one dimensional integrable models are often well-understood, exploring quantum dynamics in these systems remains…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-13 Wang Yang , Jianda Wu , Shenglong Xu , Zhe Wang , Congjun Wu

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