Order and disorder, crossovers, and phase transitions in dipolar artificial spin ice on the Cairo lattice.

We study the thermodynamic properties of the magnetic dipolar spin ice on a 2D pentagonal Cairo lattice by using the numerical Metropolis and the complete enumeration methods. We use the model of point Ising-like dipoles considering long-range interactions with up to 100 nearest neighbors and with periodic boundary conditions. There are two explicit peaks both in the temperature behavior of the heat capacity and in the magnetic susceptibility.

Large peaks in the entropy of the diluted nearest-neighbor spin-ice model on the pyrochlore lattice in a [111] magnetic field.

We study the residual entropy of the nearest-neighbor spin-ice model in a magnetic field along the [111] direction using the Wang-Landau Monte Carlo method, with a special attention to dilution effects. For a diluted model, we observe a stepwise decrease of the residual entropy as a function of the magnetic field, which is consistent with the finding of the five magnetization plateaus in a previous replica-exchange Monte Carlo study by Peretyatko et al. [Phys.