Energetic analysis of disorder effects in an artificial spin ice with dipolar interactions
arXiv:1610.05594 · doi:10.1088/1361-648X/ab7e58
Abstract
We study the effect of quenched disorder in square artificial spin ice by means of numerical simulations. We introduce disorder in the length of magnetic islands using two kinds of distributions: Gaussian and uniform. As the system behavior depends on its geometrical parameters, we focus on studying it in the proximity of the ice regime which is quite difficult to thermalize both in experiments and simulations. We show how length disorder affect the antiferromagnetic and (locally) ferromagnetic ordering, by inducing the system, in the case of weak disorder, to intermediate or mix states. Moreover, in the case of strong disorder, ferromagnetic plaquettes prevail regardless of whether the mean length of the islands corresponds to an antiferromagnetic ordering.
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