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Spin ice, a peculiar thermal state of a frustrated ferromagnet on the pyrochlore lattice, has a finite entropy density and excitations carrying magnetic charge. By combining analytical arguments and Monte Carlo simulations, we show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-24 Gia-Wei Chern , Paula Mellado , O. Tchernyshyov

Achieving thermal equilibrium in two-dimensional lattices of interacting nanomagnets has been a key issue on the route to study exotic phases in artificial frustrated magnets. We revisit this issue in artificial one-dimensional kagom\'e…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-10-19 L. Salmon , V. Schánilec , J. Coraux , B. Canals , N. Rougemaille

Strongly-interacting nanomagnetic arrays are ideal systems for exploring reconfigurable magnonics. They provide huge microstate spaces and integrated solutions for storage and neuromorphic computing alongside GHz functionality. These…

Continuous control over lattice geometry, when combined with long-range interactions, offers a powerful yet underexplored tool to generate highly frustrated quantum spin systems. By considering long-range dipolar antiferromagnetic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-16 Francisco Machado , Sabrina Chern , Michael P. Zaletel , Norman Y. Yao

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 present a numerical study of magnetic ordering in spin ice on kagome, a two-dimensional lattice of corner-sharing triangles. The magnet has six ground states and the ordering occurs in two stages, as one might expect for a six-state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-21 Gia-Wei Chern , Oleg Tchernyshyov

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

Ferrotoroidicity, the fourth form of primary ferroic order, breaks both space and time inversion symmetry. So far, direct observation of ferrotoroidicity in natural materials remains elusive, which impedes the exploration of ferrotoroidic…

Magnetic nanoarray with special geometries exhibits nontrivial collective behaviors similar to those observed in the spin ice materials. Here we present a novel circuit model to describe the complex magnetotransport phenomena in artificial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 Gia-Wei Chern

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

Frustration in the presence of competing interactions is ubiquitous in the physical sciences and is a source of degeneracy and disorder, giving rise to new and interesting physical phenomena. Perhaps nowhere does it occur more simply than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Cristiano Nisoli , Roderich Moessner , Peter Schiffer

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 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 propose a new model for the nature of the low temperature phase of a geometrically frustrated antiferromgnet (AFM) with a Kagome lattice, SrCr$_{8-x}$Ga$_{4+x}$O$_{19}$. We propose that the long-range dipolar interaction between the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Nir Gov

Magnetricity- the magnetic equivalent of electricity- was recently verified experimentally for the first time. Indeed, just as the stream of electric charges produces electric current, emergent magnetic monopoles have been observed to roam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-17 R. P. Loreto , L. A. Morais , R. C. Silva , F. S. Nascimento , C. I. L. de Araujo , L. A. S. Mól , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

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…

Artificial ice systems have been designed to replicate paradigmatic phenomena observed in frustrated spin systems. Here we present a detailed theoretical analysis based on Monte-Carlo simulations of the low energy phases in an artificial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-17 Anne Le Cunuder , Irénée Frérot , Antonio Ortiz-Ambriz , Pietro Tierno

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 (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

The results of extensive Monte Carlo simulations of classical spins on the two-dimensional kagome lattice with only dipolar interactions are presented. In addition to revealing the six-fold degenerate ground state, the nature of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-01 M. S. Holden , M. L. Plumer , I. Saika-Voivod , B. W. Southern