Engineering of frustration in colloidal artificial ices realized on microfeatured grooved lattices

Visualizing the dynamics of electron spins in frustrated systems is a challenging task, which may require an alternative way at the microscale. Here, the authors realize an artificial system composed of interacting colloidal particles to mimick frustrated spins, which is potentially helpful in infor...

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Main Authors: Antonio Ortiz-Ambriz, Pietro Tierno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10575