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We investigate a set of topological arrangements of individual ferromagnetic islands in ideal and disordered artificial spin ice (ASI) arrays in order to evaluate how aspects of their field-driven reversal are affected by the model used.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Gary W. Paterson , Gavin M. Macauley , Rair Macêdo

In this work, we explore a kind of geometrical effect in the thermodynamics of artificial spin ices (ASI). In general, such artificial materials are athermal. Here, We demonstrate that geometrically driven dynamics in ASI can open up the…

Magnetic monopoles, long hypothesised as fundamental particles carrying isolated magnetic charge, emerge in spin-ice systems as fractionalised excitations governed by the ice rule. Yet their three-dimensional field structure has never been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Arjen van den Berg , Peter Rickhaus , Frank Barrows , Cristiano Nisoli , Sam Ladak

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

Frustrated lattices1-3, characterized by minor breakdown in local order in an otherwise periodic lattice, lead to simultaneous possibilities of several ground states which can trigger unique physical properties, in condensed matter systems.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 Satyendra Prakash Pal , P. Sen

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

We model the dynamics of magnetization in an artificial analog of spin ice specializing to the case of a honeycomb network of connected magnetic nanowires. The inherently dissipative dynamics is mediated by the emission, propagation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-16 Yichen Shen , Olga Petrova , Paula Mellado , Stephen Daunheimer , John Cumings , Oleg Tchernyshyov

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

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

We report on the tuning of magnetic interactions in superlattices composed of single and bilayer SrIrO$_3$ inter-spaced with SrTiO$_3$. Magnetic scattering shows predominately $c$-axis antiferromagnetic orientation of the magnetic moments…

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

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

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

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

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

It is of great interest to develop methods to rapidly and effectively control the magnetic configurations in artificial spin ices, which are arrangements of dipolar coupled nanomagnets that have a variety of fascinating collective magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 D. Pecchio , S. Sahoo , O. Chubykalo-Fesenko , S. Koraltan , G. M. Macauley , T. Thomson , D. Suess , V. Scagnoli , L. J. Heyderman

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…

Artificial Spin Ices are two dimensional arrays of magnetic, interacting nano-structures whose geometry can be chosen at will, and whose elementary degrees of freedom can be characterized directly. They were introduced at first to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Cristiano Nisoli

Rotating all islands in square artificial spin ice (ASI) uniformly about their centres gives rise to the recently reported pinwheel ASI. At angles around 45$^\mathrm{o}$, the antiferromagnetic ordering changes to ferromagnetic and the…

Artificial spin systems, sometimes referred to as artificial spin ices, are arrays of coupled nanoscale magnets that order according to the lattice geometry, nanomagnet shape and magnetic anisotropy. Here we characterize a family of…