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Title: Doped colloidal artificial spin ice

Abstract

We examine square and kagome artificial spin ice for colloids confined in arrays of double-well traps. Conversely, magnetic artificial spin ices, unlike colloidal and vortex artificial spin ice realizations, allow creation of doping sites through double occupation of individual traps. We find that doping square and kagome ice geometries produces opposite effects. For square ice, doping creates local excitations in the ground state configuration that produce a local melting effect as the temperature is raised. In contrast, the kagome ice ground state can absorb the doping charge without generating non-ground-state excitations, while at elevated temperatures the hopping of individual colloids is suppressed near the doping sites. Our results indicate that in the square ice, doping adds degeneracy to the ordered ground state and creates local weak spots, while in the kagome ice, which has a highly degenerate ground state, doping locally decreases the degeneracy and creates local hard regions.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
OSTI Identifier:
1238997
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1236014; OSTI ID: 1238998
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-15-24826
Journal ID: ISSN 1367-2630
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396; PN-II-RU-TE-2011-3-0114
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Published Article
Journal Name:
New Journal of Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: New Journal of Physics Journal Volume: 17 Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; artificial spin ice; doping; colloids

Citation Formats

Libál, A., Reichhardt, C. J. Olson, and Reichhardt, C. Doped colloidal artificial spin ice. United Kingdom: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/17/10/103010.
Libál, A., Reichhardt, C. J. Olson, & Reichhardt, C. Doped colloidal artificial spin ice. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/10/103010
Libál, A., Reichhardt, C. J. Olson, and Reichhardt, C. 2015. "Doped colloidal artificial spin ice". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/10/103010.
@article{osti_1238997,
title = {Doped colloidal artificial spin ice},
author = {Libál, A. and Reichhardt, C. J. Olson and Reichhardt, C.},
abstractNote = {We examine square and kagome artificial spin ice for colloids confined in arrays of double-well traps. Conversely, magnetic artificial spin ices, unlike colloidal and vortex artificial spin ice realizations, allow creation of doping sites through double occupation of individual traps. We find that doping square and kagome ice geometries produces opposite effects. For square ice, doping creates local excitations in the ground state configuration that produce a local melting effect as the temperature is raised. In contrast, the kagome ice ground state can absorb the doping charge without generating non-ground-state excitations, while at elevated temperatures the hopping of individual colloids is suppressed near the doping sites. Our results indicate that in the square ice, doping adds degeneracy to the ordered ground state and creates local weak spots, while in the kagome ice, which has a highly degenerate ground state, doping locally decreases the degeneracy and creates local hard regions.},
doi = {10.1088/1367-2630/17/10/103010},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1238997}, journal = {New Journal of Physics},
issn = {1367-2630},
number = 10,
volume = 17,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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