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Spin ice materials are magnetic substances in which the spin directions map onto hydrogen positions in water ice. Recently this analogy has been elevated to an electromagnetic equivalence, indicating that the spin ice state is a Coulomb…

The notion of magnetic monopoles has puzzled physicists since the introduction of Maxwell's Equations and famously Dirac had hypothesized them in the context of quantum mechanics. While they have proved experimentally elusive as elementary…

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 pyrochlore compounds Ho2Ti2O7 and Dy2Ti2O7 show an exotic form of magnetism called the spin ice state, resulting from the interplay between geometrical frustration and ferromagnetic coupling. A fascinating feature of this state is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-11 D. P. Leusink , F. Coneri , M. Hoek , S. Turner , H. Idrissi , G. Van Tendeloo , H. Hilgenkamp

Multipolar magnetism is an emerging field of quantum materials research. The building blocks of multipolar phenomena are magnetic ions with a non-Kramers doublet, where the orbital and spin degrees of freedom are inextricably intertwined,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-08 Adarsh S. Patri , Masashi Hosoi , SungBin Lee , Yong Baek Kim

Artificial spin ice provides a versatile setting for emergent gauge fields and magnetic monopole excitations. Here we propose a driven-dissipative polariton realization of artificial spin ice, in which the circular polarization of each link…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Junhui Cao , Alexey Kavokin

Among the frustrated magnetic materials, spin-ice stands out as a particularly interesting system. Residual entropy, freezing and glassiness, Kasteleyn transitions and fractionalisation of excitations in three dimensions all stem from a…

Ever since its discovery, the electron spin has only been measured or manipulated through the application of an electromagnetic force acting on the associated magnetic moment. In this work, we propose a spin Aharonov-Bohm effect in which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-05 Joseph Maciejko , Eun-Ah Kim , Xiao-Liang Qi

In this paper, we examine the magnetoelectric response of Ising pyrochlores, focusing on both the ordered antiferromagnetic state and the frustrated ferromagnetic case known as "spin-ice". We employ a model which accounts for magnetoelastic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-28 Tomas Vignau Costa , Santiago Grigera , Rodolfo Borzi

The intrinsic noncollinear spin patterns in rare-earth pyrochlore are physically interesting, hosting many emergent properties, e.g. spin ice and monopole-type excitation. Recently, the magnetic monopole excitation of spin ice systems was…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-18 Lin Lin , Y. L. Xie , J. -J. Wen , Shuai Dong , Z. B. Yan , J. -M. Liu

Topological magnetic charges, arising due to the non-vanishing magnetic flux on spin ice vertices, serve as the origin of magnetic monopoles that traverse the underlying lattice effortlessly. Unlike spin ice materials of atomic origin, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-12 Jiasen Guo , Pousali Ghosh , Daniel Hill , Yiyao Chen , Laura Stingaciu , Piotr. Zolnierczuk , Carsten A. Ullrich , Deepak K. Singh

Magnetic monopoles have eluded experimental detection since their prediction nearly a century ago by Dirac. Recently it has been shown that classical analogues of these enigmatic particles occur as excitations out of the topological ground…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-23 Ludovic D. C. Jaubert , Peter C. W. Holdsworth

Fractionalisation -- the breaking up of an apparently indivisible microscopic degree of freedom -- is one of the most counterintuitive phenomena in many-body physics. Here we study its most fundamental manifestation in spin ice, the only…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-26 G. Sala , C. Castelnovo , R. Moessner , S. L. Sondhi , K. Kitagawa , M. Takigawa , R. Higashinaka , Y. Maeno

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-ices consist of lithographic arrays of single-domain magnetic nanowires organised into frustrated lattices. These geometries are usually two-dimensional, allowing a direct exploration of physics associated with frustration,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 M. Saccone , A. Van den Berg , E. Harding , S. Singh , S. R. Giblin , F. Flicker , S. Ladak

Emergent quasiparticles that arise from the fractionalization of the microscopic degrees of freedom have been one of the central themes in modern condensed matter physics. The notion of magnetic monopoles, freely moving quasiparticles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-10 Gia-Wei Chern , Paula Mellado

The "spin ice" state found in the rare earth pyrochlore magnets Ho2Ti2O7 and Dy2Ti2O7 offers a beautiful realisation of classical magnetostatics, complete with magnetic monopole excitations. It has been suggested that in "quantum spin ice"…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 Owen Benton , Olga Sikora , Nic Shannon

Arrays of suitably patterned and arranged magnetic elements may display artificial spin-ice structures with topological defects in the magnetization, such as Dirac monopoles and Dirac strings. It is known that these defects strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-13 Sebastian Gliga , Attila Kákay , Riccardo Hertel , Olle Heinonen

While sources of magnetic fields - magnetic monopoles - have so far proven elusive as elementary particles, several scenarios have been proposed recently in condensed matter physics of emergent quasiparticles resembling monopoles. A…

Interest in the magnetism of organic compounds is growing because of new organic magnets, spin-based electronics and the diverse properties of magnetic edge states in graphene nanoribbons. Electron spin resonance spectroscopy combined with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Gregory Czap , Christoph Wolf , Jose Reina-Gálvez , Mark H. Sherwood , Christopher P. Lutz