%0 Journal Article
%T Spin-glass properties of quasicrystals and complex metallic alloys
%A Janez Dolin£¿ek
%A Zvonko Jagli£¿i£¿
%J Journal of Analytical Science & Technology
%D 2012
%I 
%X Spin-glass properties of magnetic quasicrystals with spins placed on a quasiperiodic lattice, and complex metallic alloys, characterized by giant unit cells, are reviewed. The systems exhibit rich variety of broken-ergodicity phenomena that share properties with site-disordered canonical spin glasses and site-ordered geometrically frustrated antiferromagnets. Magnetic frustration provides basis of a novel concept of digital data storage, where a byte of digital information can be stored into the material by pure thermal manipulation, in the absence of electric, magnetic or electromagnetic field.
%K Spin glasses
%K Quasicrystals
%K Complex metallic alloys
%K Magnetic properties
%U http://www.jastmag.org/journal/view.php?number=84