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Magnetic lattice surprise

Transport measurements point to spontaneous formation of an array of local magnetic moments in a two-dimensional electron system tuned to low density.

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Figure 1: A two-dimensional electron system embedded in a semiconductor heterostructure.
Figure 2: The spin lattice.

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Moore, L., Goldhaber-Gordon, D. Magnetic lattice surprise. Nature Phys 3, 295–296 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys610

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