Colloquium: Artificial spin ice: Designing and imaging magnetic frustration

C Nisoli, R Moessner, P Schiffer - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
Frustration, the presence of competing interactions, is ubiquitous in the physical sciences
and is a source of degeneracy and disorder, which in turn gives rise to new and interesting …

Thermal fluctuations in artificial spin ice

V Kapaklis, UB Arnalds, A Farhan… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Artificial spin ice systems have been proposed as a playground for the study of monopole-
like magnetic excitations,, similar to those observed in pyrochlore spin ice materials …

Interaction modifiers in artificial spin ices

E Östman, H Stopfel, IA Chioar, UB Arnalds, A Stein… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
The modification of geometry and interactions in two-dimensional magnetic nanosystems
has enabled a range of studies addressing the magnetic order,,,,–, collective low-energy …

Melting artificial spin ice

V Kapaklis, UB Arnalds, A Harman-Clarke… - New Journal of …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Artificial spin ice arrays of micromagnetic islands are a means of engineering additional
energy scales and frustration into magnetic materials. Here we demonstrate a magnetic …

Dimensionality crossover in critical behaviour of ultrathin ferromagnetic films

PV Prudnikov, VV Prudnikov, MA Menshikova… - Journal of Magnetism …, 2015 - Elsevier
We propose the model which takes account of magnetocrystalline anisotropy effects in thin
magnetic films. The dimensionality crossover from two-dimensional monolayer to three …

Thermalized ground state of artificial kagome spin ice building blocks

UB Arnalds, A Farhan, RV Chopdekar… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We present a direct magnetic imaging study on the thermal macrospin ordering of artificial
kagome spin ice building blocks. Using photoemission electron microscopy, employing x-ray …

Thermal transitions in nano-patterned XY-magnets

UB Arnalds, M Ahlberg, MS Brewer, V Kapaklis… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We have fabricated ultra-thin disc shaped islands wherein shape anisotropy confines the
moment to the island plane, creating XY-like superspins. At low temperatures, the …

Proximity effects on dimensionality and magnetic ordering in Pd/Fe/Pd trialyers

TPA Hase, MS Brewer, UB Arnalds, M Ahlberg… - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
The element-specific magnetization and ordering in trilayers consisting of 0.3–1.4
monolayer (ML) thick Fe layers embedded in Pd (001) has been determined using x-ray …

Multiple energy scales in mesospin systems: The vertex-frustrated Saint George lattice

H Stopfel, UB Arnalds, A Stein, TPA Hase… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
The interplay between topology and energy hierarchy plays a vital role in the collective
magnetic order in artificial ferroic systems. Here we investigate, experimentally, the effect of …

Position‐Selective Introduction of Ferromagnetism on the Micro‐and Nanoscale in a Paramagnetic Thin Palladium Film

P Ström, C Vantaraki, R Kaur, TT Tran… - physica status solidi …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Postsynthetic, position‐selective addition of properties to materials constitutes a paradigm
shifting step in materials engineering. The approach enables creation of material systems …