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

Shi, Yifei; Nisoli, Cristiano; Chern, Gia-Wei

doi:10.1063/5.0046083

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

Journal Article · Wed Mar 24 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0046083· OSTI ID:1804436

Shi, Yifei ^[1];

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Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

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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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001; DOE-LDRD

OSTI ID:: 1804436

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1772513

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-21-21120; TRN: US2212298

Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 118, Issue 12; ISSN 0003-6951

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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