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Deliberate exotic magnetism via frustration and topology

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Introduced originally to mimic the unusual, frustrated behaviour of spin ice pyrochlores, artificial spin ice can be realized in odd, dedicated geometries that open the door to new manifestations of a higher level of frustration.

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Figure 1: Pairwise Frustration.
Figure 2: Vertex frustration.

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C.N.'s work is carried out under the auspices of the NNSA of the US Department of Energy at LANL under contract no. DE-AC52-06NA25396 and financed by the Department of Energy at the LANL IMS. V.K. acknowledges funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. P.S. was funded by the US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering Division under grant no. DE-SC0010778.

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  1. Cristiano Nisoli is at the Theoretical Division and Institute for Materials Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA,

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  2. Vassilios Kapaklis is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden,

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  3. Peter Schiffer is in the Department of Physics and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Ilinois 61801, USA,

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