Fragmentation of magnetism in artificial kagome dipolar spin ice

oleh: Benjamin Canals, Ioan-Augustin Chioar, Van-Dai Nguyen, Michel Hehn, Daniel Lacour, François Montaigne, Andrea Locatelli, Tevfik Onur Menteş, Benito Santos Burgos, Nicolas Rougemaille

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2016-05-01

Deskripsi

By nanofabricating arrays of dipolar-coupled bistable single-domain nanomagnets, artificial model systems exhibiting collective ordering may be realized. Here, the authors present signatures of spin fragmentation in low-energy states of an artificial kagome ice.