Avalanches and disorder-induced criticality in artificial spin ices

We show that both square and kagome artificial spin ice systems exhibit disorder-induced nonequilibrium phase transitions, with power law avalanche distributions at the critical disorder level. The different nature of geometrical frustration in the two lattices produces distinct types of critical av...

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Main Authors: Gia-Wei Chern, C Reichhardt, C J Olson Reichhardt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/16/6/063051