Symmetry breaking, slow relaxation dynamics, and topological defects at the field-induced helix reorientation in MnSi

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作者
Bauer, A. [1 ]
Chacon, A. [1 ]
Wagner, M. [1 ]
Halder, M. [1 ]
Georgii, R. [1 ,2 ]
Rosch, A. [3 ]
Pfleiderer, C. [1 ]
Garst, M. [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Tech Univ Munich, Phys Dept, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[2] Tech Univ Munich, Heinz Maier Leibnitz Zentrum MLZ, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[3] Univ Cologne, Inst Theoret Phys, D-50937 Cologne, Germany
[4] Tech Univ Dresden, Inst Theoret Phys, D-01062 Dresden, Germany
关键词
NON-FERMI-LIQUID; REAL-SPACE OBSERVATION; SPIN-DENSITY WAVE; SKYRMION-LATTICE; MAGNETIC-STRUCTURES; PHASE-TRANSITIONS; STATE; FLUCTUATIONS; VECTOR;
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10.1103/PhysRevB.95.024429
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
We report a study of the reorientation of the helimagnetic order in the archetypal cubic chiral magnet MnSi as a function of magnetic field direction. The reorientation process as inferred from small-angle neutron scattering, the magnetization, and the ac susceptibility is in excellent agreement with an effective mean-field theory taking into account the precise symmetries of the crystallographic space group. Depending on the field and temperature history and the direction of the field with respect to the crystalline axes, the helix reorientation may exhibit a crossover, a first-order, or a second-order transition. The magnetization and ac susceptibility provide evidence that the reorientation of helimagnetic domains is associated with large relaxation times exceeding seconds. At the second-order transitions residual Ising symmetries are spontaneously broken at continuous elastic instabilities of the helimagnetic order. In addition, on the time scales explored in our experiments these transitions are hysteretic as a function of field suggesting, within the same theoretical framework, the formation of an abundance of plastic deformations of the helical spin order. These deformations comprise topologically nontrivial disclinations, reminiscent of the skyrmions discovered recently in the same class of materials.
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