Pfleiderer C, Reznik D, Pintschovius L, Haug J
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany.
Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Oct 12;99(15):156406. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.156406. Epub 2007 Oct 11.
We report small angle neutron scattering of spontaneous and magnetic field aligned components of the helical spin polarization in MnSi for temperatures T down to 0.35 K, at pressures p up to 21 kbar, and magnetic field B up to 0.7 T. The parameter range of our study spans the first order transition between helical order and partial magnetic order at p{c}=14.6 kbar, which coincides with the onset of an extended regime of non-Fermi liquid resistivity. Our study suggests that MnSi above p{c} is not dominated by the remnants of the first order transition at p{c}, but that an unidentified mechanism favors stabilization of a new ground state other than helical order.
我们报告了在温度低至0.35 K、压力高达21 kbar以及磁场高达0.7 T的条件下,对MnSi中螺旋自旋极化的自发和磁场取向分量进行的小角中子散射实验。我们研究的参数范围跨越了在p{c}=14.6 kbar时螺旋序和部分磁序之间的一级相变,这与非费米液体电阻率扩展区域的起始点相吻合。我们的研究表明,高于p{c}的MnSi并非由p{c}处一级相变的残余主导,而是一种未知机制有利于稳定除螺旋序之外的新基态。