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We report an artificial geometrically frustrated magnet based on an array of lithographically fabricated single-domain ferromagnetic islands. The islands are arranged such that the dipole interactions create a two-dimensional analogue to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 R. F. Wang , C. Nisoli , R. S. Freitas , J. Li , W. McConville , B. J. Cooley , M. S. Lund , N. Samarth , C. Leighton , V. H. Crespi , P. Schiffer

We report broadband spin-wave spectroscopy on kagome artificial spin ice (ASI) made of large arrays of interconnected Ni$_{80}$Fe$_{20}$ nanobars. Spectra taken in saturated and disordered states exhibit a series of resonances with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 V. S. Bhat , F. Heimbach , I. Stasinopoulos , D. Grundler

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

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 analyze the rotational demagnetization of artificial spin ice, a recently realized array of nanoscale single-domain ferromagnetic islands. Demagnetization does not anneal this model system into its anti-ferromagnetic ground state: the…

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

We use the sixteen vertex model to describe bi-dimensional artificial spin ice (ASI). We find excellent agreement between vertex densities in fifteen differently grown samples and the predictions of the model. Our results demonstrate that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-01 Demian Levis , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Laura Foini , Marco Tarzia

Magneto-toroidal artificial spin ices (MT-ASIs) are arrangements of nanomagnets that exhibit spontaneous toroidization. A ferrotoroidic order could have implications on the propagation of spin waves through this artificial spin ice,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 G. Alatteili , L. A. Scafuri , E. Iacocca

Quenched disorder affects how non-equilibrium systems respond to driving. In the context of artificial spin ice, an athermal system comprised of geometrically frustrated classical Ising spins with a two-fold degenerate ground state, we give…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-18 Zoe Budrikis , J. P. Morgan , J. Akerman , A. Stein , Paolo Politi , S. Langridge , C. H. Marrows , R. L. Stamps

We realize a three-dimensional artificial spin ice of disconnected nanomagnets interacting solely via dipolar coupling, patterned on square pyramids. This Pyramid artificial spin ice, with both tilted and in-plane nanomagnets, supports…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Luca Berchialla , Gavin M. Macauley , Flavien Museur , Anja Weber , Laura J. Heyderman

We study a frustrated two-dimensional array of dipoles forming an artificial rectangular spin ice with horizontal and vertical lattice parameters given by $a$ and $b$ respectively. We show that the ice regime could be stabilized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-07 F. S. Nascimento , L. A. S. Mól , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

Artificial spin ice (ASI) are nanomagnetic metamaterials exhibiting a wide range of emergent properties, which have recently shown promise for neuromorphic computing. However, the lack of efficient protocols to control the state evolution…

We experimentally demonstrate that arrays of interacting nanoscale ferromagnetic islands, known as artificial spin ice, develop reproducible microstates upon cycling an applied magnetic field. The onset of this memory effect is determined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Ian Gilbert , Gia-Wei Chern , Bryce Fore , Yuyang Lao , Sheng Zhang , Cristiano Nisoli , Peter Schiffer

We present a detailed theoretical overview of the thermodynamic properties of the dipolar spin ice model, which has been shown to be an excellent quantitative descriptor of the Ising pyrochlore materials Dy_2Ti_2O_7 and Ho_2Ti_2O_7. We show…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-24 Roger G. Melko , Matthew Enjalran , Byron C. den Hertog , Michel. J. P. Gingras

Frustrated spin-ice systems support emergent gauge fields and fractionalized quasiparticles that act as magnetic monopoles. Although artificial platforms have enabled their direct visualization, access to their quantum-coherent dynamics has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-20 Krzysztof Giergiel , Piotr Surówka

Artificial spin ice arrays of micromagnetic islands are a means of engineering additional energy scales and frustration into magnetic materials. Despite much progress in elucidating the properties of such arrays, the `spins' in the systems…

Small amplitude dipolar oscillations are considered in artificial spin ice on a square lattice in two dimensions. The net magnetic moment of each elongated magnetic island in the spin ice is assumed to have Heisenberg-like dynamics. Each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Thomas D. Lasnier , G. M. Wysin

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

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

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