Kurumaji Takashi, Nakajima Taro, Ukleev Victor, Feoktystov Artem, Arima Taka-Hisa, Kakurai Kazuhisa, Tokura Yoshinori
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Wako 351-0198, Japan.
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS) at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), Garching 85748, Germany.
Phys Rev Lett. 2017 Dec 8;119(23):237201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.237201. Epub 2017 Dec 4.
The formation of the triangular Skyrmion lattice is found in a tetragonal polar magnet VOSe_{2}O_{5}. By magnetization and small-angle neutron scattering measurements on the single crystals, we identify a cycloidal spin state at zero field and a Néel-type Skyrmion-lattice phase under a magnetic field along the polar axis. Adjacent to this phase, another magnetic phase of an incommensurate spin texture is identified at lower temperatures, tentatively assigned to a square Skyrmion-lattice phase. These findings exemplify the versatile features of Néel-type Skyrmions in bulk materials, and provide a further opportunity to explore the physics of topological spin textures in polar magnets.
在四方极性磁体VOSe₂O₅中发现了三角斯格明子晶格的形成。通过对单晶进行磁化和小角中子散射测量,我们确定了零场下的摆线自旋态以及沿极轴方向磁场作用下的尼尔型斯格明子晶格相。在该相附近,在更低温度下识别出了另一个具有非公度自旋纹理的磁相,初步认定为方形斯格明子晶格相。这些发现例证了块状材料中尼尔型斯格明子的多样特性,并为探索极性磁体中拓扑自旋纹理的物理性质提供了新的契机。