Interactions between alternating layers of exotic, 2D material create 'entropy-driven order' in a structured system of magnets at equilibrium (IMAGE)

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Interactions between alternating layers of exotic, 2D material create 'entropy-driven order' in a structured system of magnets at equilibrium

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Extremely small arrays of magnets, known as tetris spin ice (shown here), can order themselves by increasing their disorder.

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Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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