ナノスケールの鉄磁気島々の幾何学的に挫折した格子の中の人工の"スピンアイス"

R F Wang1, C Nisoli, R S Freitas

  • 1Department of Physics and Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.

Nature
|January 20, 2006
PubMed
まとめ

研究者は,スピン氷のエキゾチックな低温状態を模倣する,人工的に挫折した磁石を作成しました. このブレークスルーにより,新しいシステムで磁気挫折物理学を直接視覚化することができます.

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