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  • Accepted Manuscript: Nanoscale control of competing interactions and geometrical frustration in a dipolar trident lattice

Title: Nanoscale control of competing interactions and geometrical frustration in a dipolar trident lattice

Geometrical frustration occurs when entities in a system, subject to given lattice constraints, are hindered to simultaneously minimize their local interactions. In magnetism, systems incorporating geometrical frustration are fascinating, as their behavior is not only hard to predict, but also leads to the emergence of exotic states of matter. Here, we provide a first look into an artificial frustrated system, the dipolar trident lattice, where the balance of competing interactions between nearest-neighbor magnetic moments can be directly controlled, thus allowing versatile tuning of geometrical frustration and manipulation of ground state configurations. Our findings not only provide the basis for future studies on the low-temperature physics of the dipolar trident lattice, but also demonstrate how this frustration-by-design concept can deliver magnetically frustrated metamaterials.
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  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Aalto Univ., Aalto (Finland)
  3. Univ. di Genova, Genova (Italy)
  4. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany)
  6. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu (Republic of Korea)
  7. Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow (United Kingdom)
  8. Adolfo Ibanez Univ., Santiago (Chile)
Publication Date:
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Research Org:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
OSTI Identifier:
1419457
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