Tensile deformations of the magnetic chiral soliton lattice probed by Lorentz transmission electron microscopy

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العنوان: Tensile deformations of the magnetic chiral soliton lattice probed by Lorentz transmission electron microscopy
المؤلفون: Paterson, G. W., Tereshchenko, A. A., Nakayama, S., Kousaka, Y., Kishine, J., McVitie, S., Ovchinnikov, A. S., Proskurin, I., Togawa, Y.
المصدر: Phys. Rev. B 101, 184424 (2020)
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Materials Science
الوصف: We consider the case of a chiral soliton lattice subjected to uniaxial elastic strain applied perpendicular to the chiral axis and derive through analytical modelling the phase diagram of magnetic states supported in the presence of an external magnetic field. The strain induced anisotropies give rise to three distinct non-trivial spin textures, depending on the nature of the strain, and we show how these states may be identified by their signatures in Lorentz transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Experimental TEM measurements of the Fresnel contrast in a strained sample of the prototypical monoaxial chrial helimagnet CrNb$_3$S$_6$ are reported and compare well with the modelled contrast. Our results demonstrate an additional degree of freedom that may be used to tailor the magnetic properties of helimagnets for fundamental research and applications in the areas of spintronics and the emerging field of strain manipulated spintronics.
Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures. Minor style and reference edits
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.184424
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09634
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1911.09634
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.184424