Classical topological order in the kinetics of artificial spin ice

Lao, Yuyang; Caravelli, Francesco; Sheikh, Mohammed; Sklenar, Joseph; Gardeazabal, Daniel; Watts, Justin D.; Albrecht, Alan M.; Scholl, Andreas; Dahmen, Karin; Nisoli, Cristiano; Schiffer, Peter

doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0077-0

Title: Classical topological order in the kinetics of artificial spin ice

Journal Article · 02 April 2018 · Nature Physics

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0077-0 · OSTI ID:1479948

Lao, Yuyang ^[1];

^[2]; Sheikh, Mohammed ^[3]; Sklenar, Joseph ^[1];

^[1]; Watts, Justin D. ^[4]; Albrecht, Alan M. ^[5]; Scholl, Andreas ^[6]; Dahmen, Karin ^[3];

^[3]; Schiffer, Peter ^[1]

Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics, and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab.
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Theoretical Division, Inst. for Materials Science, and Center for Nonlinear Studies
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science; Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States). School of Physics and Astronomy
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Systems of interacting nanomagnets known as “artificial spin ice” have allowed the design, realization and study of geometrically frustrated exotic collective states that are absent in natural magnets. We have experimentally measured , the thermally induced moment fluctuations in the Shakti geometry of artificial spin ice. We show that its disordered moment configuration is a topological phase described by an emergent dimer-cover model with excitations that can be characterized as topologically charged defects. Examination of the low-energy dynamics of the system confirms that these effective topological charges have long lifetimes associated with their topological protection, i.e., they can be created and annihilated only as charge pairs with opposite sign and are kinetically constrained. This manifestation of classical topological order demonstrates that geometrical design in nanomagnetic systems can lead to emergent, topologically protected kinetics that can limit pathways to equilibration and ergodicity.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396; AC02-05CH11231; SC0010778

OSTI ID:: 1479948

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1485098; OSTI ID: 1594859

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-17-29552

Journal Information:: Nature Physics, Vol. 14, Issue 7; ISSN 1745-2473

Publisher:: Nature Publishing Group (NPG)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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