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Altynbaev EV, Chubova NM, Grigoriev SV. Exotic Spin Structures in Transition-Metal Monosilicides and Monogermanides. CRYSTALLOGR REP+ 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s1063774522010023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Xu L, Li X, Lu X, Collignon C, Fu H, Koo J, Fauqué B, Yan B, Zhu Z, Behnia K. Finite-temperature violation of the anomalous transverse Wiedemann-Franz law. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:eaaz3522. [PMID: 32494640 PMCID: PMC7182422 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz3522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2019] [Accepted: 01/17/2020] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The Wiedemann-Franz (WF) law has been tested in numerous solids, but the extent of its relevance to the anomalous transverse transport and the topological nature of the wave function, remains an open question. Here, we present a study of anomalous transverse response in the noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn3Ge extended from room temperature down to sub-kelvin temperature and find that the anomalous Lorenz ratio remains close to the Sommerfeld value up to 100 K but not above. The finite-temperature violation of the WF correlation is caused by a mismatch between the thermal and electrical summations of the Berry curvature and not by inelastic scattering. This interpretation is backed by our theoretical calculations, which reveals a competition between the temperature and the Berry curvature distribution. The data accuracy is supported by verifying the anomalous Bridgman relation. The anomalous Lorenz ratio is thus an extremely sensitive probe of the Berry spectrum of a solid.
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- Liangcai Xu
- Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
- Laboratoire de Physique et d'Etude des Matériaux (CNRS), ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, 75005 Paris, France
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- Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Laboratoire de Physique et d'Etude des Matériaux (CNRS), ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, 75005 Paris, France
- JEIP, USR 3573 CNRS, Collège de France, 11 place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Rehovot, Israel
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- Laboratoire de Physique et d'Etude des Matériaux (CNRS), ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, 75005 Paris, France
- JEIP, USR 3573 CNRS, Collège de France, 11 place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Rehovot, Israel
- Corresponding author. (B.Y.); (Z.Z.); (K.B.)
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- Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
- Corresponding author. (B.Y.); (Z.Z.); (K.B.)
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- Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
- Laboratoire de Physique et d'Etude des Matériaux (CNRS), ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, 75005 Paris, France
- II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, 50937 Köln, Germany
- Corresponding author. (B.Y.); (Z.Z.); (K.B.)
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Belemuk AM, Stishov SM. Modeling longitudinal spin fluctuations in chiral magnets. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2019; 31:135801. [PMID: 30669137 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ab00b7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We investigate the effect of evolution of energy of longitudinal spin fluctuations on the helimagnetic transition and specific heat in a Heisenberg magnet with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction that may arise in a result of applied pressure. Using the classical Monte Carlo calculations for the spin-lattice Hamiltonian accounting for variable spin amplitudes we find that the helical phase transition is pretty robust against the longitudinal spin fluctuations. At the same time the amplitude of the fluctuation hump seen in the specific heat dependence at [Formula: see text] and its position are significantly affected. Depending on the mode of evolution the hump either shifts to lower or higher temperatures increasing its amplitude with the amplitude of the fluctuations.
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- A M Belemuk
- Institute for High Pressure Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Troitsk 108840, Russia
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Valkovskiy GA, Altynbaev EV, Kuchugura MD, Yashina EG, Sukhanov AS, Dyadkin VA, Tsvyashchenko AV, Sidorov VA, Fomicheva LN, Bykova E, Ovsyannikov SV, Chernyshov DY, Grigoriev SV. Thermal expansion of monogermanides of 3d-metals. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2016; 28:375401. [PMID: 27421076 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/37/375401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Temperature dependent powder and single-crystal synchrotron diffraction, specific heat, magnetic susceptibility and small-angle neutron scattering experiments have revealed an anomalous response of MnGe. The anomaly becomes smeared out with decreasing Mn content in Mn1-x Co x Ge and Mn1-x Fe x Ge solid solutions. Mn spin state instability is discussed as a possible candidate for the observed effects.
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- G A Valkovskiy
- Faculty of Physics, Saint-Petersburg State University, 198504 Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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Positron spectroscopy of point defects in the skyrmion-lattice compound MnSi. Sci Rep 2016; 6:29109. [PMID: 27388948 PMCID: PMC4937373 DOI: 10.1038/srep29109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2016] [Accepted: 06/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Outstanding crystalline perfection is a key requirement for the formation of new forms of electronic order in a vast number of widely different materials. Whereas excellent sample quality represents a standard claim in the literature, there are, quite generally, no reliable microscopic probes to establish the nature and concentration of lattice defects such as voids, dislocations and different species of point defects on the level relevant to the length and energy scales inherent to these new forms of order. Here we report an experimental study of the archetypical skyrmion-lattice compound MnSi, where we relate the characteristic types of point defects and their concentration to the magnetic properties by combining different types of positron spectroscopy with ab-initio calculations and bulk measurements. We find that Mn antisite disorder broadens the magnetic phase transitions and lowers their critical temperatures, whereas the skyrmion lattice phase forms for all samples studied underlining the robustness of this topologically non-trivial state. Taken together, this demonstrates the unprecedented sensitivity of positron spectroscopy in studies of new forms of electronic order.
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Wilhelm H, Baenitz M, Schmidt M, Naylor C, Lortz R, Rössler UK, Leonov AA, Bogdanov AN. Confinement of chiral magnetic modulations in the precursor region of FeGe. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2012; 24:294204. [PMID: 22773363 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/24/29/294204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We report on magnetic susceptibility and specific heat measurements of the cubic helimagnet FeGe in external magnetic fields and temperatures near the onset of long-range magnetic order at TC = 278.2(3) K. Pronounced anomalies in the field-dependent χac(H) data as well as in the corresponding imaginary part χ''ac(H) reveal a precursor region around TC in the magnetic phase diagram. The occurrence of a maximum at T0 = 279.6 K in the zero-field specific heat data indicates a second-order transition into a magnetically ordered state. A shoulder evolves above this maximum as a magnetic field is applied. The field dependence of both features coincides with crossover lines from the field-polarized to the paramagnetic state deduced from χac(T) at constant magnetic fields. The experimental findings are analyzed within the standard Dzyaloshinskii theory for cubic helimagnets. The remarkable multiplicity of modulated precursor states and the complexity of the magnetic phase diagram near the magnetic ordering are explained by the change of the character of solitonic inter-core interactions and the onset of specific confined chiral modulations in this area.
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- H Wilhelm
- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK.
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Stishov SM, Petrova AE, Shikov AA, Lograsso TA, Isaev EI, Johansson B, Daemen LL. Lost heat capacity and entropy in the helical magnet MnSi. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 105:236403. [PMID: 21231488 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.236403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The heat capacity of MnSi at B = 0 and B = 4 T was measured in the temperature range 2.5-100 K. To analyze the data, calculations of the phonon spectrum and phonon density of states in MnSi were performed. The calculated phonon frequencies were confirmed by means of inelastic neutron scattering. The analysis of the data suggests the existence of negative contributions to the heat capacity and entropy of MnSi at T > T(c) that may imply a specific ordering in the spin subsystem in the paramagnetic phase of MnSi.
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- Sergei M Stishov
- Institute for High Pressure Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow Region, Russia.
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Chattopadhyay MK, Arora P, Roy SB. Magnetic properties of the field-induced ferromagnetic state in MnSi. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2009; 21:296003. [PMID: 21828542 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/29/296003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We present results of dc magnetization measurements focusing on the magnetic properties of the field-induced ferromagnetic state in MnSi. The temperature dependence of saturation magnetization in this ferromagnetic state exhibits the signatures of both spin wave excitations and itinerant electron ferromagnetism. The Arrott plots obtained from the isothermal field dependence of magnetization, however, are found to be distinctly nonlinear and hence cannot be explained within a simple framework of itinerant electron magnetism.
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- M K Chattopadhyay
- Magnetic and Superconducting Materials Section, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore 452 013, India
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Petrova AE, Stishov SM. Ultrasonic studies of the magnetic phase transition in MnSi. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2009; 21:196001. [PMID: 21825499 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/19/196001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Measurements of the sound velocities in a single crystal of MnSi were performed in the temperature range 4-150 K. Elastic constants, controlling propagation of longitudinal waves, reveal significant softening at a temperature of about 29.6 K and small discontinuities at ∼28.8 K, which corresponds to the magnetic phase transition in MnSi. In contrast, the shear elastic moduli do not show any softening at all, reacting only to the small volume deformation caused by the magneto-volume effect. The current ultrasonic study exposes an important fact that the magnetic phase transition in MnSi, occurring at 28.8 K, is just a minor feature of the global transformation marked by the rounded maxima or minima of heat capacity, thermal expansion coefficient, sound velocities and absorption, and the temperature derivative of resistivity.
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- A E Petrova
- Institute for High Pressure Physics, Troitsk, 142190 Moscow Region, Russia
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