Frustration by design

Gilbert, Ian; Nisoli, Cristiano; Schiffer, Peter

doi:10.1063/PT.3.3237

Title: Frustration by design

Journal Article · Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 UTC 2016 · Physics Today

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3237 · OSTI ID:1340923

Gilbert, Ian ^[1]; Nisoli, Cristiano ^[2]; Schiffer, Peter ^[3]

National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (United States). Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)

Geometrical frustration is a condition that occurs when a material’s lattice geometry precludes minimizing the energy of all the interactions among pairs of neighbors simultaneously. Moreover, the simplest example is three antiferromagnetically coupled Ising spins, pointing up or down, on the corners of an equilateral triangle: It is also impossible to arrange the spins so that each pair is antiparallel. In more complex magnetic lattices, the frustrated state can arise from the combination of lattice geometry and the strength and sign of the interactions among the magnetic dipole moments.1 (See the article by Roderich Moessner and Art Ramirez, Physics Today, February 2006, page 24.) A wide variety of exotic and collective phenomena sometimes arises from the competing interactions. One prime example is spin liquids, materials in which the local atomic moments fluctuate down to the lowest accessible temperatures and never settle into a static ground-state configuration.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1340923

Report Number(s):: LA-UR--16-22359

Journal Information:: Physics Today, Journal Name: Physics Today Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 69; ISSN 0031-9228

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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