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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

Extensive work on single molecule magnets has identified a fundamental mode of relaxation arising from the nuclear-spin assisted quantum tunnelling of nearly independent and quasi-classical magnetic dipoles. Here we show that nuclear-spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-28 C. Paulsen , S. R. Giblin , E. Lhotel , D. Prabhakaran , K. Matsuhira , G. Balakrishnan , S. T. Bramwell

Geometric frustration usually arises in systems that comprise magnetic moments (spins) which reside on the sites of a lattice made up of elementary triangular or tetrahedral units and which interact via antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbor…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-17 Michel J. P. Gingras

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

We study the magnetic soliton dynamics of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice which results in an effective Hamiltonian of anisotropic pseudospin chain. An equation of nonlinear Schr\"odinger type is derived and exact…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-30 Zai-Dong Li , Qiu-Yan Li

It has been proposed recently \cite{son} that excitations in Spin Ice can be of the form of magnetic monopoles that does not obey the Dirac Quantization Condition. It is also well known \cite{rj} that the above scenario leads to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-01-24 Subir Ghosh

In this letter, we have constructed and experimentally investigated frustrated arrays of dipoles forming two-dimensional artificial spin ices with different lattice parameters (rectangular arrays with horizontal and vertical lattice…

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

At low temperatures, spin ice is populated by a finite density of magnetic monopoles-pointlike topological defects with a mutual magnetic Coulomb interaction. We discuss the properties of the resulting magnetic Coulomb liquid in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-07 Claudio Castelnovo , Roderich Moessner , Shivaji Sondhi

Frustration in magnetic interactions can give rise to disordered ground states with subtle and beautiful properties. The spin ices Ho2Ti2O7 and Dy2Ti2O7 exemplify this phenomenon, displaying a classical spin liquid state, with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-11 Mathieu Taillefumier , Owen Benton , Han Yan , L. D. C. Jaubert , Nic Shannon

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

An experiment that shows the modulation of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations of magneto-resistance in a mesoscopic ring is described. Possible theoretical explanations of this modulation due to the interaction of the electron spin with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeeva Anandan

The global monopole solutions which give rise to quite unusual physical phenomena have captured considerable attention. In this paper, we study the Einstein ring of the spherically symmetric AdS black hole solution with a global monopole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-21 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Li-Fang Li , Peng Xu

We study the magnetic excitations of a square lattice spin-ice recently produced in an artificial form, as an array of nanoscale magnets. Our analysis, based upon the dipolar interaction between the nanomagnetic islands, correctly…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-24 L. A. S. Mol , R. L. Silva , R. C. Silva , A. R. Pereira , W. A. Moura-Melo , B. V. Costa

Distinct symmetry enriched topological orders often do not have classical distinctions. Motivated by the recent progress on the pyrochlore spin ice materials based on the dipole-octupole doublets, we argue that the dipolar spin liquid and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-07 Pengwei Zhao , Gang v. Chen

Identifying and imaging spin textures of ever more complex magnetic structures has become a major challenge in the past decade, especially at ultrashort timescales. Most of current approaches are based on the analysis of their polarization…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-26 Thierry Ruchon , Mauro Fanciulli

Artificial spin ices (ASI), containing magnetic monopole quasi-particles emerging at room temperature, have been investigated as a promising system to be applied in alternative low-power information technology devices. However, restrictions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 D. G. Duarte , S. F. de Souza , L. B. de Oliveira , E. B. M. Junior , E. N. D. de Araujo , J. M. Fonseca , C. I. L. de Araujo

We propose a classical model Hamiltonian with a ground state presenting a spin ice structure. We analyze the introduction of metastable excitations on this ground state, showing the emergence of pairs of magnetic monopoles. The interaction…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-15 J. E. da Fonseca , C. W. Morais , A. L. Mota , L. H. C. M. Nunes

Storing and accessing information in atomic-scale magnets requires magnetic imaging techniques with single-atom resolution. Here, we show simultaneous detection of the spin-polarization and exchange force, with or without the flow of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Nadine Hauptmann , Jan W. Gerritsen , Daniel Wegner , Alexander A. Khajetoorians

We present a comprehensive study of the magnetoelastic properties of the Ising pyrochlore oxide Ho$_{2}$Ti$_{2}$O$_{7}$, known as spin ice, by means of high-field magnetostriction measurements and numerical calculations. When a magnetic…