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Title: Ice rule breakdown and frustrated antiferrotoroidicity in an artificial colloidal Cairo ice

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Abstract We combine experiments and numerical simulations to investigate the low energy states and the emergence of topological defects in an artificial colloidal ice in the Cairo geometry. This type of geometry is characterized by a mixed coordination ( z ), with coexistence of both z  = 3 and z  = 4 vertices. We realize this particle ice by confining field tunable paramagnetic colloidal particles within a lattice of topographic double wells at a one to one filling using optical tweezers. By raising the interaction strength via an applied magnetic field, we find that the ice rule breaks down, and positive monopoles with charge q = + 2 accumulate in the z  = 4 vertices and are screened by negative ones ( q = − 1 ) in the z  = 3. The resulting, strongly coupled state remains disordered. Further, via analysis of the mean chirality associated to each pentagonal plaquette, we find that the disordered ensemble for this geometry is massively degenerate and it corresponds to a frustrated antiferrotoroid.

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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); European Research Council (ERC)
OSTI Identifier:
2008002
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 2004625; OSTI ID: 2007376
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-23-29230
Journal ID: ISSN 1367-2630
Grant/Contract Number:  
892333218NCA000001; 89233218CNA000001; 811234
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
New Journal of Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: New Journal of Physics Journal Volume: 25 Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; computer science; material science; geometric frustration; colloids; magnetism; chirality

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Rodríguez-Gallo, Carolina, Ortiz-Ambriz, Antonio, Nisoli, Cristiano, and Tierno, Pietro. Ice rule breakdown and frustrated antiferrotoroidicity in an artificial colloidal Cairo ice. United Kingdom: N. p., 2023. Web. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/acfc60.
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Rodríguez-Gallo, Carolina, Ortiz-Ambriz, Antonio, Nisoli, Cristiano, & Tierno, Pietro. Ice rule breakdown and frustrated antiferrotoroidicity in an artificial colloidal Cairo ice. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/acfc60
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Rodríguez-Gallo, Carolina, Ortiz-Ambriz, Antonio, Nisoli, Cristiano, and Tierno, Pietro. Fri . "Ice rule breakdown and frustrated antiferrotoroidicity in an artificial colloidal Cairo ice". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/acfc60.
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@article{osti_2008002,
title = {Ice rule breakdown and frustrated antiferrotoroidicity in an artificial colloidal Cairo ice},
author = {Rodríguez-Gallo, Carolina and Ortiz-Ambriz, Antonio and Nisoli, Cristiano and Tierno, Pietro},
abstractNote = {Abstract We combine experiments and numerical simulations to investigate the low energy states and the emergence of topological defects in an artificial colloidal ice in the Cairo geometry. This type of geometry is characterized by a mixed coordination ( z ), with coexistence of both z  = 3 and z  = 4 vertices. We realize this particle ice by confining field tunable paramagnetic colloidal particles within a lattice of topographic double wells at a one to one filling using optical tweezers. By raising the interaction strength via an applied magnetic field, we find that the ice rule breaks down, and positive monopoles with charge q = + 2 accumulate in the z  = 4 vertices and are screened by negative ones ( q = − 1 ) in the z  = 3. The resulting, strongly coupled state remains disordered. Further, via analysis of the mean chirality associated to each pentagonal plaquette, we find that the disordered ensemble for this geometry is massively degenerate and it corresponds to a frustrated antiferrotoroid.},
doi = {10.1088/1367-2630/acfc60},
journal = {New Journal of Physics},
number = 10,
volume = 25,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2023},
month = {Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2023}
}
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