Johannes Schönke, Tobias M. Schneider, and Ingo Rehberg
Phys. Rev. B 91, 020410(R) (2015)
| (a) Rendering of eight dipoles as arrows located at the corners of a cube. The colored and translucent arrows show selected orientations in the ground state of the system which is a continuum of infinitely many configurations. The continuum corresponds to rotations of the dipoles in planes perpendicular to the cube's volume diagonal of the respective corner in analogy to the mechanical system in Fig. 2. Pairs of dipoles in opposing corners are always parallel. (b) Magnetic energy landscape for eight dipoles located at the corners of a cube. The energy is shown as a function of the two orientation angles of one dipole, covering all possible orientations. The other seven dipoles adjust to the respective minimum energy configuration. The white line through the “valley” marks the continuous ground state. (c) Rendering of eight bevel gears located at the corners of a cube. The rotation axes point to the cube's center and every gear interlocks with its three edge neighbors. The motion of this mechanical system, indicated by the red arrows, corresponds to the motion of the ground state continuum in the magnetic system. |
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