Abstract
In this theoretical investigation we address the effect of defects on thermal excitations in square-lattice dipolar arrays. The geometry of the nanomagnets, adopted from recent experiments [A. Farhan \textit{et al.}, Nature Phys.\ \textbf{9} (2013) 375], allows for thermal activation at room temperature. It turns out that excitations can efficiently be pinned at defects. Furthermore, ferromagnetic strings of nanomagnets that connect a pair of defects can be produced; their lengths are closely related to the distance of the defects and the topology of the magnetic ground-state configuration. We discuss various types of defects, all of which can be produced by microstructuring techniques.
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