Direct entropy determination and application to artificial spin ice

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 786-789

  Lammert, Paul E ^a   Ke, Xianglin ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Nisoli, Cristiano ^a,b   Garand, David M ^a   Crespi, Vincent H ^a   Schiffer, Peter ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIGITAL STORAGE; ENTROPY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

COLLOIDAL MATERIALS; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; CONFIGURATIONAL ENTROPY; DIRECT DETERMINATION; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; STATISTICAL MEASURES; TRANSLATION INVARIANTS;

ICE;

EID: 77957591557     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1728     Document Type: Article

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