Perpendicular magnetization and generic realization of the ising model in artificial spin ice

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Sheng ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Gilbert, Ian ^a   Bartell, Jason ^a   Erickson, Michael J ^b   Pan, Yu ^a   Lammert, Paul E ^a   Nisoli, Cristiano ^c   Kohli, K K ^a   Misra, Rajiv ^a   Crespi, Vincent H ^a   Samarth, Nitin ^a   Leighton, C ^b   Schiffer, Peter ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HONEYCOMB ARRAYS; LATTICE TOPOLOGY; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; NEAREST-NEIGHBORS; PAIR CORRELATIONS; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIZATION; SINGLE DOMAINS; SPIN CORRELATIONS; SPIN ICE;

ISING MODEL; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOSTATICS;

ICE;

EID: 84865227305     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.087201     Document Type: Article

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