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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus
MA 51: Magnetic textures II
MA 51.5: Talk
Thursday, March 15, 2018, 16:00–16:15, EB 407
Modulated magnetic texture of the Heusler compound Mn-Pt-Ir-Sn studied by SANS — •Aleksandr Sukhanov1, Praveen Vir1, Alistair Cameron2, Andre Heinemann3, Dmytro Inosov2, and Claudia Felser1 — 1Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187 Dresden, Germany — 2Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik, TU Dresden, D-01069 Dresden, Germany — 3German Engineering Materials Science Centre (GEMS) at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht GmbH, 85747 Garching bei Muenchen, Germany
Mn1.4PtSn belongs to the family of tetragonally-distorted Heulser compounds where non-collinear magnetic order is expected to appear as a result of competition between Heisenberg exchange interaction, the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy. Recent examples include the canted antiferromagnetic order in the compound Mn2RhSn and the lattice of antiskyrmions in Mn1.4Pt0.9Pd0.1Sn, which is a structural analogue of the discussed compound [1,2]. Small-angle neutron scattering experiments on an oriented single crystal of Mn1.4PtSn revealed highly-anisotropic nature of the spatial spin-spin correlation function in the range of 100 nm. The latter might be associated with a long-range fluctuation of the ferromagnetic order along one of the principal in-plane crystallographic directions. The scattering patterns show clear dependence on the temperature and the applied magnetic field.
[1] O. Meshcheriakova et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 087203 (2014)
[2] A. K. Nayak et al., Nature 548, 561 (2017)