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Depletion-driven antiferromagnetic, paramagnetic, and ferromagnetic behavior in quasi-two-dimensional buckled colloidal solids

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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 158, Issue 19, Pages -

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AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0146155

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In this study, we investigate the effects of depletion interactions on quasi-two-dimensional buckled colloidal monolayers. The results show that depletion attraction can modify the magnitude and sign of the Ising spin coupling constant, leading to a variation in the nearest-neighbor Ising spin interactions from antiferromagnetic to para- and ferromagnetic. By using a simple theory, we calculate an effective Ising nearest-neighbor coupling constant and demonstrate experimentally the depletion-induced modification of the coupling constant, including its sign and other behaviors. Additionally, we observe a crossover from an Ising antiferromagnetic to paramagnetic phase with increasing depletion attraction, and structural arrest in different regimes of the coupling constant driven by different mechanisms.
We investigate quasi-two-dimensional buckled colloidal monolayers on a triangular lattice with tunable depletion interactions. Without depletion attraction, the experimental system provides a colloidal analog of the well-known geometrically frustrated Ising antiferromagnet [Y. Han et al., Nature 456, 898-903 (2008)]. In this contribution, we show that the added depletion attraction can influence both the magnitude and sign of an Ising spin coupling constant. As a result, the nearest-neighbor Ising spin interactions can be made to vary from antiferromagnetic to para- and ferromagnetic. Using a simple theory, we compute an effective Ising nearest-neighbor coupling constant, and we show how competition between entropic effects permits for the modification of the coupling constant. We then experimentally demonstrate depletion-induced modification of the coupling constant, including its sign, and other behaviors. Depletion interactions are induced by rod-like surfactant micelles that change length with temperature and thus offer means for tuning the depletion attraction in situ. Buckled colloidal suspensions exhibit a crossover from an Ising antiferromagnetic to paramagnetic phase as a function of increasing depletion attraction. Additional dynamical experiments reveal structural arrest in various regimes of the coupling-constant, driven by different mechanisms. In total, this work introduces novel colloidal matter with magnetic features and complex dynamics rarely observed in traditional spin systems.

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