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二维自旋冰中的磁共振和弦激发

Magnetic monopole and string excitations in a two-dimensional spin ice

L. A. S. Mol, R. L. Silva, R. C. Silva, A. R. Pereira, W. A. Moura-Melo, B. V. Costa

摘要:

我们研究了一个正方形晶格自旋冰最近产生的人工形式的磁激发,作为一个阵列的纳米磁体。我们的分析,基于纳米磁性岛之间的偶极相互作用,正确地再现了实验观察到的基态。此外,我们发现磁单极激发通过通常的库仑加线性限制势有效地相互作用,后者与束缚磁单极对的弦状激发有关,这表明磁偶极的分裂可能不那么容易在二维中。这些发现将这种材料与三维类似物进行了对比,在三维类似物中,这种单极子只经历库仑相互作用。然而,我们讨论了两个熵的影响,相互作用:第一,弦的配置熵可能会松弦张力,然后,自由磁单极子也应该在低维自旋冰中找到;第二,在相反的弦配置熵,熵驱动的库仑力,它随温度的增加,具有相反的效果限制的磁缺陷。

英文摘要:

We study the magnetic excitations of a square lattice spin-ice recently produced in an artificial form, as an array of nanoscale magnets. Our analysis, based upon the dipolar interaction between the nanomagnetic islands, correctly reproduces the ground-state observed experimentally. In addition, we find magnetic monopole-like excitations effectively interacting by means of the usual Coulombic plus a linear confining potential, the latter being related to a string-like excitation binding the monopoles pairs, what indicates that the fractionalization of magnetic dipoles may not be so easy in two dimensions. These findings contrast this material with the three-dimensional analogue, where such monopoles experience only the Coulombic interaction. We discuss, however, two entropic effects that affect the monopole interactions: firstly, the string configurational entropy may loose the string tension and then, free magnetic monopoles should also be found in lower dimensional spin ices; secondly, in contrast to the string configurational entropy, an entropically driven Coulomb force, which increases with temperature, has the opposite effect of confining the magnetic defects.

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