Direct observation of thermal relaxation in artificial spin ice

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Farhan, A ^a,b   Derlet, P M ^a   Kleibert, A ^a   Balan, A ^a   Chopdekar, R V ^a   Wyss, M ^a,c   Perron, J ^a,b,d   Scholl, A ^e   Nolting, F ^a   Heyderman, L J ^a,b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; EFFECTIVE INTERACTIONS; FUNCTION OF TIME; KINETIC MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MAGNETIC STATE; PHOTOEMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL RELAXATION;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

PHYSICS;

MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLE;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; KINETICS; MAGNET; MAGNETISM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

KINETICS; MAGNETICS; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES; MAGNETS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 84881536191     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.057204     Document Type: Article

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