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Title: Emergent geometric frustration of artificial magnetic skyrmion crystals
Authors: Ma, Fusheng
Reichhardt, C.
Gan, Weiliang
Reichhardt, C. J. Olson
Lew, Wen Siang
Keywords: Magnetism
Magnetic Texture
Issue Date: 2016
Source: Ma, F., Reichhardt, C., Gan, W., Reichhardt, C. J. O., & Lew, W. S. (2016). Emergent geometric frustration of artificial magnetic skyrmion crystals. Physical Review B, 94(14), 144405-.
Series/Report no.: Physical Review B
Abstract: Magnetic skyrmions have been receiving growing attention as potential information storage and magnetic logic devices since an increasing number of materials have been identified that support skyrmion phases. Explorations of artificial frustrated systems have led to new insights into controlling and engineering new emergent frustration phenomena in frustrated and disordered systems. Here, we propose a skyrmion spin ice, giving a unifying framework for the study of geometric frustration of skyrmion crystals (SCs) in a nonfrustrated artificial geometrical lattice as a consequence of the structural confinement of skyrmions in magnetic potential wells. The emergent ice rules from the geometrically frustrated SCs highlight a novel phenomenon in this skyrmion system: emergent geometrical frustration. We demonstrate how SC topology transitions between a nonfrustrated periodic configuration and a frustrated icelike ordering can also be realized reversibly. The proposed artificial frustrated skyrmion systems can be annealed into different ice phases with an applied current-induced spin-transfer torque, including a long-range ordered ice rule obeying ground state, as-relaxed random state, biased state, and monopole state. The spin-torque reconfigurability of the artificial skyrmion ice states, difficult to achieve in other artificial spin ice systems, is compatible with standard spintronic device fabrication technology, which makes the semiconductor industrial integration straightforward.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84129
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42934
ISSN: 2469-9950
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.144405
Schools: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences 
Rights: © 2016 American Physical Society. This paper was published in Physical Review B and is made available as an electronic reprint (preprint) with permission of American Physical Society. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.144405]. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic or multiple reproduction, distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.
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