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Frustration in magnetic systems is fertile ground for complex behaviour, including unconventional ground states with emergent symmetries, topological properties, and exotic excitations. A canonical example is the emergence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-02 M. J. Pearce , K. Götze , A. Szabó , T. S. Sikkenk , M. R. Lees , A. T. Boothroyd , D. Prabhakaran , C. Castelnovo , P. A. Goddard

Magnetic monopole quasiparticles in spin ice materials hold the potential for exploring new frontiers of physics that extend beyond Maxwell's equations. We have previously proposed a two-dimensional magnetic monopole gas (2DMG), confined at…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-26 Prakash Timsina , Boris Kiefer , Ludi Miao

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

The possibilities of combining several degrees of freedom inside a unique material have recently been highlighted in their dynamics and proposed as information carriers in quantum devices where their cross-manipulation by external…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-13 Y. Alexanian , J. Saugnier , C. Decorse , J. Robert , R. Ballou , E. Lhotel , J. Debray , F. Gay , V. Simonet , S. de Brion

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 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…

To design fast memory devices, we need material combinations which can facilitate fast read and write operation. We present a heterostructure comprising a two-dimensional (2D) magnet and a 2D topological insulator (TI) as a viable option…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-31 Sabyasachi Tiwari , Maarten L. Van de Put , Kristiaan Temst , William G. Vandenberghe , Bart Soree

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

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

Magnetic monopoles are hypothesised elementary particles connected by Dirac strings that behave like infinitely thin solenoids. Despite decades of searches, free magnetic monopoles and their Dirac strings have eluded experimental detection,…

We present a proposal for applying nanoscale magnetometry to the search for magnetic monopoles in the spin ice materials holmium and dysprosium titanate. Employing Monte Carlo simulations of the dipolar spin ice model, we find that when…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-25 Franziska K. K. Kirschner , Felix Flicker , Amir Yacoby , Norman Y. Yao , Stephen J. Blundell

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

While there is compelling evidence for the existence of magnetic monopoles in spin ice, the direct observation of a point-like source of magnetic field in these systems remains an open challenge. One promising approach is electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-20 Ankur Dhar , Ludovic D. C. Jaubert , Cathal Cassidy , Tsumoru Shintake , Nic Shannon

Despite a clear demonstration of bistability in spin-crossover (SCO) materials, the absence of long-range magnetic order and poor electrical conductivity limit their prospect in spintronic and nanoelectronic applications. Intending to…

Through micromagnetic simulations, this work analyzes the stability of Bloch points in magnetic nanospheres and the possibility of using an array of such particles to compose a system with the features of a magnetic trap. We show that a BP…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 F. Tejo , C. Zambrano-Rabanal , V. Carvalho-Santos , N. Vidal-Silva

Magnetic monopoles are hypothetical particles that may exist as quantized sources and sinks of the magnetic field. In materials, they may appear in an emergent quantum electrodynamics described by a U(1) lattice gauge theory. Particularly,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-01 Sho Nakosai , Shigeki Onoda

Proceeding from the more general to the more concrete, we propose an equilibrium field theory describing spin ice systems in terms of topological charges and magnetic monopoles. We show that for a spin ice on a graph, the entropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 Cristiano Nisoli

The single-ion anisotropy and magnetic interactions in spin-ice systems give rise to unusual non-collinear spin textures, such as Pauling states and magnetic monopoles. The effective spin correlation strength ($J_{eff}$) determines the…

We propose and analyze magnetic traps and lattices for electrons in semiconductors. We provide a general theoretical framework and show that thermally stable traps can be generated by magnetically driving the particle's internal spin…

In this paper we conduct Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the thermodynamic properties of a geometry of artificial spin ice recently proposed in the literature that had been termed "rewritable" spin ice, for its experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-01 R. A. Stancioli , L. A. S. Mól
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