Dynamic response of an artificial square spin ice

Jungfleisch, M. B., Zhang, W., Iacocca, Ezio, Sklenar, J., Ding, J., Jiang, W., Zhang, S., Pearson, J. E., Novosad, V., Ketterson, J. B., Heinonen, O. and Hoffmann, A. (2016) Dynamic response of an artificial square spin ice. Physical Review B, 93 (10). ISSN 2469-9950

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Abstract

Magnetization dynamics in an artificial square spin-ice lattice made of Ni80Fe20 with magnetic field applied in the lattice plane is investigated by broadband ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy. The experimentally observed dispersion shows a rich spectrum of modes corresponding to different magnetization states. These magnetization states are determined by exchange and dipolar interaction between individual islands, as is confirmed by a semianalytical model. In the low field regime below 400 Oe a hysteretic behavior in the mode spectrum is found. Micromagnetic simulations reveal that the origin of the observed spectra is due to the initialization of different magnetization states of individual nanomagnets. Our results indicate that it might be possible to determine the spin-ice state by resonance experiments and are a first step towards the understanding of artificial geometrically frustrated magnetic systems in the high-frequency regime.

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