Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2012-01-13
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
14 pages, 2 figures. A theoretical approach to experimental results reported in: Morgan J P, Stein A, Langridge S and Marrows
Scientific paper
We propose a model to predict and control the statistical ensemble of magnetic degrees of freedom in Artificial Spin Ice (ASI) during thermalized adiabatic growth. We predict that as-grown arrays are controlled by the temperature at fabrication and by their lattice constant, and that they can be described by an effective temperature. If the geometry is conducive to a phase transition, then the lowest temperature phase is accessed in arrays of lattice constant smaller than a critical value, which depends on the temperature at deposition. Alternatively, for arrays of equal lattice constant, there is a temperature threshold at deposition and the lowest temperature phase is accessed for fabrication temperatures {\it larger rather than smaller} than this temperature threshold. Finally we show how to define and control the effective temperature of the as-grown array and how to measure critical exponents directly. We discuss the role of kinetics at the critical point, and applications to experiments, in particular to as-grown thermalized square ASI, and to magnetic monopole crystallization in as-grown honeycomb ASI.
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