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Title: Ice, glass, and solid phases in artificial spin systems with quenched disorder

Abstract

We present a numerical study on a disordered artificial spin-ice system, which interpolates between the long-range ordered square ice and the fully degenerate shakti ice. Starting from the square-ice geometry, disorder is implemented by adding vertical/horizontal magnetic islands to the center of some randomly chosen square plaquettes of the array at different densities. When no island is added, we have ordered square ice. When all square plaquettes have been modified, we obtain shakti ice, which is disordered yet in a topological phase corresponding to the Rys F-model. In between, geometrical frustration due to these additional center spins disrupts the long-range Ising order of square ice, giving rise to a spin-glass regime at low temperatures. The artificial spin system proposed in our work provides an experimental platform to study the interplay between quenched disorder and geometrical frustration.

Authors:
 [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
OSTI Identifier:
1804436
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1772513
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-21-21120
Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951; TRN: US2212298
Grant/Contract Number:  
89233218CNA000001; DOE-LDRD
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Applied Physics Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 118; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; magnetic ordering; metamaterials; phase transitions; glass transitions; magnetic materials; geometric frustration; statistical mechanics models; Monte Carlo methods

Citation Formats

Shi, Yifei, Nisoli, Cristiano, and Chern, Gia-Wei. Ice, glass, and solid phases in artificial spin systems with quenched disorder. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1063/5.0046083.
Shi, Yifei, Nisoli, Cristiano, & Chern, Gia-Wei. Ice, glass, and solid phases in artificial spin systems with quenched disorder. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0046083
Shi, Yifei, Nisoli, Cristiano, and Chern, Gia-Wei. Wed . "Ice, glass, and solid phases in artificial spin systems with quenched disorder". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0046083. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1804436.
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abstractNote = {We present a numerical study on a disordered artificial spin-ice system, which interpolates between the long-range ordered square ice and the fully degenerate shakti ice. Starting from the square-ice geometry, disorder is implemented by adding vertical/horizontal magnetic islands to the center of some randomly chosen square plaquettes of the array at different densities. When no island is added, we have ordered square ice. When all square plaquettes have been modified, we obtain shakti ice, which is disordered yet in a topological phase corresponding to the Rys F-model. In between, geometrical frustration due to these additional center spins disrupts the long-range Ising order of square ice, giving rise to a spin-glass regime at low temperatures. The artificial spin system proposed in our work provides an experimental platform to study the interplay between quenched disorder and geometrical frustration.},
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