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Title: Magnetization dynamics of weakly interacting sub-100 nm square artificial spin ices

Journal Article · · Scientific Reports
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  1. Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Chilton (United Kingdom). Rutherford Appleton Lab. (RAL), ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility; Basque Center for Materials, Applications & Nanostructures, Leioa (Spain). BCMaterials; Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao (Spain)
  2. Univ. of Leeds, Leeds (United Kingdom); Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
  3. Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Chilton (United Kingdom). Rutherford Appleton Lab. (RAL), ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility
  4. Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom)
  5. Univ. of Leeds, Leeds (United Kingdom)
  6. Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom); Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg (Canada)

Artificial Spin Ice (ASI), consisting of a two dimensional array of nanoscale magnetic elements, provides a fascinating opportunity to observe the physics of out-of-equilibrium systems. Initial studies concentrated on the static, frozen state, whilst more recent studies have accessed the out-of-equilibrium dynamic, fluctuating state. This opens up exciting possibilities such as the observation of systems exploring their energy landscape through monopole quasiparticle creation, potentially leading to ASI magnetricity, and to directly observe unconventional phase transitions. In this work we have measured and analysed the magnetic relaxation of thermally active ASI systems by means of SQUID magnetometry. We have investigated the effect of the interaction strength on the magnetization dynamics at different temperatures in the range where the nanomagnets are thermally active. We have observed that they follow an Arrhenius-type Néel-Brown behaviour. An unexpected negative correlation of the average blocking temperature with the interaction strength is also observed, which is supported by Monte Carlo simulations. The magnetization relaxation measurements show faster relaxation for more strongly coupled nanoelements with similar dimensions. The analysis of the stretching exponents obtained from the measurements suggest 1-D chain-like magnetization dynamics. This indicates that the nature of the interactions between nanoelements lowers the dimensionality of the ASI from 2-D to 1-D. Finally, we present a way to quantify the effective interaction energy of a square ASI system, and compare it to the interaction energy computed with micromagnetic simulations.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; EP/L003090/1; EP/L00285X/1; EP/L002922/1
OSTI ID:
1582365
Journal Information:
Scientific Reports, Vol. 9, Issue 1; ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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