Confined spin wave spectra of Kagome artificial spin ice arrays

The spin wave modes of elongated magnetic islands arranged in Kagome artificial spin-ice arrays are micromagnetically simulated in the frequency regime between 3 and 16 GHz. The edge modes are more suitable in order to detect the signatures of various types of local order of the spin-ice lattice as they are much more sensitive to the magnetic configurations of neighboring elements. The spectra of arrays consisting up to 30 elements can be decomposed to those originating from local magnetic states of their vertices.