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SUBMITTER: Canals B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4869173 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160513
Geometrical frustration in magnetic materials often gives rise to exotic, low-temperature states of matter, such as the ones observed in spin ices. Here we report the imaging of the magnetic states of a thermally active artificial magnetic ice that reveal the fingerprints of a spin fragmentation process. This fragmentation corresponds to a splitting of the magnetic degree of freedom into two channels and is evidenced in both real and reciprocal space. Furthermore, the internal organization of bo ...[more]