Nonuniversality of artificial frustrated spin systems

作者:Chioar I A*; Rougemaille N; Grimm A; Fruchart O; Wagner E; Hehn M; Lacour D; Montaigne F; C****s B
来源:Physical Review B, 2014, 90(6): 064411.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.90.064411

摘要

Magnetic frustration effects in artificial kagome arrays of nanomagnets with out-of-plane magnetization are investigated using magnetic force microscopy and Monte Carlo simulations. Experimental and theoretical results are compared to those found for the artificial kagome spin ice in which the nanomagnets have in-plane magnetization. In contrast with what has been recently reported, we demonstrate that long-range (i.e., beyond nearest-neighbor) dipolar interactions between the nanomagnets cannot be neglected when describing the magnetic configurations observed after demagnetizing the arrays using a field protocol. As a consequence, there are clear limits to any universality in the behavior of these two artificial frustrated spin systems. We provide arguments to explain why these two systems show striking similarities at first sight in the development of pairwise spin correlations.

  • 出版日期2014-8-11