Direct observation of the ice rule in an artificial kagome spin ice

Y Qi, T Brintlinger, J Cumings - Physical Review B, 2008 - APS
Recently, significant interest has emerged in fabricated systems that mimic the behavior of
geometrically frustrated materials. We present the full realization of such an artificial spin ice …

Geometric frustration in buckled colloidal monolayers

Y Han, Y Shokef, AM Alsayed, P Yunker, TC Lubensky… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Geometric frustration arises when lattice structure prevents simultaneous minimization of
local interaction energies. It leads to highly degenerate ground states and, subsequently, to …

Energy minimization and ac demagnetization in a nanomagnet array

X Ke, J Li, C Nisoli, PE Lammert, W McConville… - Physical review …, 2008 - APS
We study ac demagnetization in frustrated arrays of single-domain ferromagnetic islands,
exhaustively resolving every (Ising-like) magnetic degree of freedom in the systems …

Building blocks of an artificial kagome spin ice: Photoemission electron microscopy of arrays of ferromagnetic islands

E Mengotti, LJ Heyderman, A Fraile Rodríguez… - Physical Review B …, 2008 - APS
Arrays of dipolar coupled ferromagnetic islands arranged in specific geometries provide
ideal systems to directly study frustration. We have examined with photoemission electron …

Magnetostatic interactions on a square lattice

A Remhof, A Schumann, A Westphalen, H Zabel… - Physical Review B, 2008 - APS
The metastable zero field magnetic states of elongated Permalloy islands on square lattices
of different geometries are investigated by means of magnetic force microscopy and …

Multipolar Ordering in Electro‐and Magnetostatic Coupled Nanosystems

EY Vedmedenko, N Mikuszeit - ChemPhysChem, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Electric and magnetic multipole moments and polarizabilities are important quantities in
studies of intermolecular forces, non‐linear optical phenomena, electrostatic, magnetostatic …

3D geometrically frustrated magnets assembled by transition metal ion and 1, 2, 3-triazole-4, 5-dicarboxylate as triangular nodes

WX Zhang, W Xue, JB Lin, YZ Zheng, XM Chen - CrystEngComm, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
Three new chiral metal–organic frameworks,(H2NMe2)[M (tzdc)]· 0.5 H2O [MCo (II)(1), Mn
(II)(2)] and (NH4)[Mn (tzdc)]· 2.6 H2O (3)(tzdc3−= 1, 2, 3-triazole-4, 5-dicarboxylate), have …

On the crystal and magnetic ordering structures of clinoatacamite, γ-Cu2 (OD) 3Cl, a proposed valence bond solid

AS Wills, JY Henry - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Frustrated magnetic systems provide routes to exploring degeneracies and creating new
electronic states. While there has been extensive theoretical study concerning the effects in …

The price of lice

AA Rosenberg - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
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Anisotropy-driven spin glass transition in the kagome antiferromagnet hydronium jarosite,(H3O) Fe3 (SO4) 2 (OH) 6

WG Bisson, AS Wills - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Highly frustrated systems have degenerate ground states that lead to novel properties. In
magnetism the consequences of frustration underpin exotic and technologically important …