Tardif Samuel, Takeshita Soshi, Ohsumi Hiroyuki, Yamaura Jun-ichi, Okuyama Daisuke, Hiroi Zenji, Takata Masaki, Arima Taka-hisa
RIKEN, SPring-8 Center, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan.
MCES, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan.
Phys Rev Lett. 2015 Apr 10;114(14):147205. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.147205. Epub 2015 Apr 8.
Long-range noncollinear all-in-all-out magnetic order has been directly observed for the first time in real space in the pyrochlore Cd_{2}Os_{2}O_{7} using resonant magnetic microdiffraction at the Os L_{3} edge. Two different antiferromagnetic domains related by time-reversal symmetry could be distinguished and have been mapped within the same single crystal. The two types of domains are akin to magnetic twins and were expected-yet unobserved so far-in the all-in-all-out model. Even though the magnetic domains are antiferromagnetic, we show that their distribution can be controlled using a magnetic field-cooling procedure.
利用Os L₃边缘的共振磁微衍射,首次在真实空间中直接观察到了烧绿石Cd₂Os₂O₇中的长程非共线全进全出磁序。可以区分出两个由时间反演对称性相关的不同反铁磁畴,并已在同一单晶中绘制出它们的分布图。这两种类型的畴类似于磁孪晶,在全进全出模型中是预期存在但迄今为止尚未观察到的。尽管磁畴是反铁磁的,但我们表明可以使用磁场冷却程序来控制它们的分布。