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Artificial spin ices are ensembles of geometrically-arranged, interacting nanomagnets which have shown promising potential for the realization of reconfigurable magnonic crystals. Such systems allow for the manipulation of spin waves on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Ezio Iacocca , Sebastian Gliga , Olle Heinonen

We study experimentally and numerically the dynamics of the spin ice material Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ in the low temperature ($T$) and moderate magnetic field ($\mathbf{B}$) regime ($T\in[0.1,1.7]K$, $B\in[0,0.3]T$). Our objective is to…

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

We model the dynamics of magnetization in an artificial analog of spin ice specializing to the case of a honeycomb network of connected magnetic nanowires. The inherently dissipative dynamics is mediated by the emission, propagation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-16 Yichen Shen , Olga Petrova , Paula Mellado , Stephen Daunheimer , John Cumings , Oleg Tchernyshyov

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 isothermal magnetic entropy change has been obtained for the bilayer system that consists of $S_u$ and $S_l$ valued spins in each layer. The relation between the IMEC and the spin value as well as the value of exchange interaction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-04 Ümit Akıncı , Yusuf Yüksel

Artificial spin ice has become a valuable tool for understanding magnetic interactions on a microscopic level. The strength in the approach lies in the ability of a synthetic array of nanoscale magnets to mimic crystalline materials,…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-23 Stephen A. Daunheimer , Olga Petrova , Oleg Tchernyshyov , John Cumings

We report on the realization of artificial ice using superconducting vortices in geometrically frustrated pinning arrays. This vortex ice shows two unique properties among artificial ice systems. The first comes from the possibility to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-29 J. Trastoy , M. Malnou , C. Ulysse , R. Bernard , N. Bergeal , G. Faini , J. Lesueur , J. Briatico , Javier E. Villegas

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 (ASI) are arrays on nanoscaled magnets that can serve both as models for frustration in atomic spin ice as well as for exploring new spin-wave-based strategies to transmit, process, and store information. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Sergi Lendinez , Mojtaba T. Kaffash , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch

We study classical spin ice under uniaxial strain along the $[111]$ crystallographic axis. Remarkably, such strain preserves the extensive ice degeneracy and the corresponding classical Coulomb phase. The emergent monopole excitations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-22 Zhongling Lu , Robin Schäfer , Jonathan N. Hallén , Chris R. Laumann

Artificial spin ice has been recently implemented in two-dimensional arrays of mesoscopic magnetic wires. We propose a theoretical model of magnetization dynamics in artificial spin ice under the action of an applied magnetic field.…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-29 Paula Mellado , Olga Petrova , Yichen Shen , Oleg Tchernyshyov

The field-induced dynamics of artificial spin ice are determined in part by interactions between magnetic islands, and the switching characteristics of each island. Disorder in either of these affects the response to applied fields.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-15 Zoe Budrikis , Paolo Politi , R. L. Stamps

Artificial spin ice systems have opened experimental windows into a range of model magnetic systems through the control of interactions among nanomagnet moments. This control has previously been enabled by altering the nanomagnet size and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Susan Kempinger , Yu-Sheng Huang , Paul Lammert , Michael Vogel , Axel Hoffmann , Vincent H. Crespi , Peter Schiffer , Nitin Samarth

Artificial spin-ice systems, consisting of arrays of interacting ferromagnetic nanoelements, offer a versatile platform for reconfigurable magnonics with potential in GHz logic and neuromorphic computing. However, weak dipolar coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Syamlal Sankaran Kunnath , Mateusz Zelent , Mathieu Moalic , Maciej Krawczyk

The monopole picture for spin ice offers a natural description for a confounding class of materials. A paper published in Nature Physics in 2009 applied it to study the dynamical properties of these systems -- sparking intense experimental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-28 Claudio Castelnovo

The close connection of electricity and magnetism is one of the cornerstones of modern physics. This connection plays crucial role from the fundamental point of view and in practical applications, including spintronics and multiferroic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-01 D. I. Khomskii

We demonstrate the use of an external field to stabilize and control defect lines connecting topological monopoles in spin ice. For definiteness we perform Brownian dynamics simulations with realistic units mimicking experimentally realized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-18 A. Libal , C. Nisoli , C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Artificial spin ices are arrays of coupled nanomagnets, which exhibit a variety of fascinating collective behaviour including emergent magnetic monopoles, charge screening, and novel phase transitions. However, they have mainly been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Gavin M. Macauley , Luca Berchialla , Peter M. Derlet , Laura J. Heyderman

We study single crystals of Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ and Ho$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ under magnetic field and stress applied along their [001] direction. We find that many of the features that the emergent gauge field of spin ice confers to the macroscopic…