Five-stage ordering to a topological-defect-mediated ground state in a buckyball artificial spin ice
Gavin M. Macauley, Luca Berchialla, Peter M. Derlet, Laura J. Heyderman · 2026
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Gavin M Macauley and colleagues modeled magnet ordering on a buckyball lattice of tiny magnets. Published in 2026, the study modeled spins placed on the edges of a buckyball, a ball of six-sided and five-sided faces. Flat spin ices rule past work, but curving into 3D space opens new shape-driven effects.
Cooling runs traced five stages: a shift from a messy sector to a spin-ice sector, then a flawed charge crystal, then spin order landing in three split steps. The end state carries two tough shape-based defects born of the lattice's finite curve. The authors offer the buckyball case as a guide to designing odd magnetic textures in other curved 3D tiny-magnet systems. Readers get a full heat tour of a curved spin lattice.
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| CREATOR | Gavin M. Macauley, Luca Berchialla, Peter M. Derlet, Laura J. Heyderman |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 73 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |