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Title: Realizing three-dimensional artificial spin ice by stacking planar nano-arrays

Abstract

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 techniques and allow little control over geometry and disorder. We present a viable design for the realization of a three-dimensional artificial spin ice with the same level of precision and control allowed by lithographic nano-fabrication of the popular two-dimensional case. Our geometry is based on layering already available two-dimensional artificial spin ice and leads to an arrangement of ice-rule-frustrated units, which is topologically equivalent to that of the tetrahedra in a pyrochlore lattice. Consequently, we show, it exhibits a genuine ice phase and its excitations are, as in natural spin ice materials, magnetic monopoles interacting via Coulomb law.

Authors:
; ;  [1]
  1. Center for Nonlinear Studies and Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22257019
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Applied Physics Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 104; Journal Issue: 1; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; LAYERS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC MONOPOLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; SPIN

Citation Formats

Chern, Gia-Wei, Reichhardt, Charles, and Nisoli, Cristiano. Realizing three-dimensional artificial spin ice by stacking planar nano-arrays. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4861118.
Chern, Gia-Wei, Reichhardt, Charles, & Nisoli, Cristiano. Realizing three-dimensional artificial spin ice by stacking planar nano-arrays. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4861118
Chern, Gia-Wei, Reichhardt, Charles, and Nisoli, Cristiano. 2014. "Realizing three-dimensional artificial spin ice by stacking planar nano-arrays". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4861118.
@article{osti_22257019,
title = {Realizing three-dimensional artificial spin ice by stacking planar nano-arrays},
author = {Chern, Gia-Wei and Reichhardt, Charles and Nisoli, Cristiano},
abstractNote = {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 techniques and allow little control over geometry and disorder. We present a viable design for the realization of a three-dimensional artificial spin ice with the same level of precision and control allowed by lithographic nano-fabrication of the popular two-dimensional case. Our geometry is based on layering already available two-dimensional artificial spin ice and leads to an arrangement of ice-rule-frustrated units, which is topologically equivalent to that of the tetrahedra in a pyrochlore lattice. Consequently, we show, it exhibits a genuine ice phase and its excitations are, as in natural spin ice materials, magnetic monopoles interacting via Coulomb law.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4861118},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22257019}, journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
issn = {0003-6951},
number = 1,
volume = 104,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 06 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Mon Jan 06 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}