Spin Ice Thin Film: Surface Ordering, Partial Magnetic Wetting and Emergent Square Ice

L. D. C. Jaubert, T. Lin, T. S. Opel +2

Motivated by recent realizations of Dy${}_2$Ti${}_2$O${}_7$ and Ho${}_2$Ti${}_2$O${}_7$ spin ice thin films, and more generally by the physics of confined gauge fields, we study a…