TY - JOUR
T1 - Magnetization and ac susceptibility study of the cubic chiral magnet Mn1-xFexSi
AU - Bannenberg, Lars
AU - Weber, F
AU - Lefering, Anton
AU - Wolf, T.
AU - Pappas, Catherine
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - We present a comprehensive and systematic magnetization and ac susceptibility study of Mn1-xFexSi over an extensive range of ten Fe concentrations between x=0 and x=0.32. With increasing Fe substitution, the critical temperature decreases but the magnetic phase diagrams remain qualitatively unaltered for x≤x∗≈0.11 with clear boundaries between the helical, conical, and skyrmion lattice phase as well as an enhanced precursor phase. A notably different behavior sets in for x=0.11,0.13, and 0.14, where certain characteristics of helimagnetic correlations persist, but without clear phase boundaries. Although a qualitative change already sets in at x∗, the transition temperature and spontaneous magnetization vanish only at xc=0.17 where also the average magnetic interactions change sign. Although the Curie-Weiss temperature reaches -12 K for x=0.32, no signature of long-range magnetic order is found down to the lowest temperature, indicating a possible significant role for quantum fluctuations in these systems. © 2018 American Physical Society.
AB - We present a comprehensive and systematic magnetization and ac susceptibility study of Mn1-xFexSi over an extensive range of ten Fe concentrations between x=0 and x=0.32. With increasing Fe substitution, the critical temperature decreases but the magnetic phase diagrams remain qualitatively unaltered for x≤x∗≈0.11 with clear boundaries between the helical, conical, and skyrmion lattice phase as well as an enhanced precursor phase. A notably different behavior sets in for x=0.11,0.13, and 0.14, where certain characteristics of helimagnetic correlations persist, but without clear phase boundaries. Although a qualitative change already sets in at x∗, the transition temperature and spontaneous magnetization vanish only at xc=0.17 where also the average magnetic interactions change sign. Although the Curie-Weiss temperature reaches -12 K for x=0.32, no signature of long-range magnetic order is found down to the lowest temperature, indicating a possible significant role for quantum fluctuations in these systems. © 2018 American Physical Society.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.184430
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.184430
M3 - Article
SN - 1098-0121
VL - 98
SP - 1
EP - 12
JO - Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics)
JF - Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics)
IS - 184430
ER -