Propagation of magnetic charge monopoles and Dirac flux strings in an artificial spin-ice lattice

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 18, 2012, Pages

  Pollard, S D ^a,b   Volkov, V ^a   Zhu, Y ^a,b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84861129055     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.180402     Document Type: Article

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