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Magnetic monopole unpairing as a function of external magnetic fields is presented as a fingerprint of this emergent quasiparticles freedom in a two-dimensional artificial spin ice system. Such freedom, required for example for further…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 D. G. Duarte , L. B. de Oliveira , F. S. Nascimento , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira , 1 , C. I. L. de Araujo

We report a magneto-optical Kerr effect study of the collective magnetic response of artificial square spin ice, a lithographically-defined array of single-domain ferromagnetic islands. We find that the anisotropic inter-island interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-08 K. K. Kohli , Andrew L. Balk , Jie Li , Sheng Zhang , Ian Gilbert , Paul E. Lammert , Vincent H. Crespi , Peter Schiffer , Nitin Samarth

Artificial spin ice systems have been introduced as a possible mean to investigate frustration effects in a well-controlled manner by fabricating lithographically-patterned two-dimensional arrangements of interacting magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Yann Perrin , Benjamin Canals , Nicolas Rougemaille

Nano-patterned magnetic materials have opened new venues on the investigation of strongly correlated phenomena including artificial spin-ice systems, geometric frustration, magnetic monopoles, for technologically important applications such…

Magnetic frustration effects in artificial kagome arrays of nanomagnets with out-of-plane magnetization are investigated using Magnetic Force Microscopy and Monte Carlo simulations. Experimental and theoretical results are compared to those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 I. A. Chioar , N. Rougemaille , A. Grimm , O. Fruchart , E. Wagner , M. Hehn , D. Lacour , F. Montaigne , B. Canals

We report here the results of micromagnetic simulations of square artificial spin ice (ASI) systems with defects. The defects are introduced by misaligning of a nanomagnet at the vertex. In these defective systems, we are able to stabilize…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Neeti Keswani , Pintu Das

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

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

Strongly-interacting nanomagnetic arrays are finding increasing use as model host systems for reconfigurable magnonics. The strong inter-element coupling allows for stark spectral differences across a broad microstate space due to shifts in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Jack C. Gartside , Alex Vanstone , Troy Dion , Kilian D. Stenning , Daan M. Arroo , Hide Kurebayashi , Will R. Branford

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

Magnetization dynamics in an artificial square spin-ice lattice made of Ni80Fe20 with magnetic field applied in the lattice plane is investigated by broadband ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy. The experimentally observed dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-03 M. B. Jungfleisch , W. Zhang , E. Iacocca , J. Sklenar , J. Ding , W. Jiang , S. Zhang , J. E. Pearson , V. Novosad , J. B. Ketterson , O. Heinonen , A. Hoffmann

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

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…

The low-energy magnetic configurations of artificial frustrated spin chains are investigated using magnetic force microscopy and micromagnetic simulations. Contrary to most studies on two-dimensional artificial spin systems where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 V. -D. Nguyen , Y. Perrin , S. Le Denmat , B. Canals , N. Rougemaille

Nanomagnetism concerns the engineering of magnetic interactions in heterostructures that consist of layers of magnetic and non-magnetic materials. Mostly, these interactions are dominated by the minimization of energy. Here, we propose an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 William Huddie , Laura Filion , Marjolein Dijkstra , Rembert Duine

In artificial spin ice (ASI), magnetic interactions between nanomagnets determine both the stable states and the switching pathways under an applied field. Here, first-order reversal curve (FORC) measurements are used to map how these…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-28 Brindaban Ojha , Matías P. Grassi , Vassilios Kapaklis

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

We study the configuration of magnetic moments on triangular lattices of single-domain ferromagnetic islands, examining the consequences of magnetostatic interactions in this frustrated geometry. By varying the island-island distance along…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Xianglin Ke , Jie Li , Sheng Zhang , Cristiano Nisoli , Vincent H. Crespi , Peter Schiffer

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…

We investigate dipolar coupling fields in two square-lattice artificial spin ice (ASI) systems with different lattice constants using scanning probe microscopy based on a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond. This technique offers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Ephraim Spindler , Vinayak Shantaram Bhat , Elke Neu , Mathias Weiler , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch