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Disordered skyrmion phase stabilized by magnetic frustration in a chiral magnet

Karube, Kosuke
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White, Jonathan S.
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Morikawa, Daisuke
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September 1, 2018
Science Advances

Magnetic skyrmions are vortex-like topological spin textures often observed to form a triangular-lattice skyrmion crystal in structurally chiral magnets with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Recently, beta-Mn structure-type Co-Zn-Mn alloys were identified as a new class of chiral magnet to host such skyrmion crystal phases, while beta-Mn itself is known as hosting an elemental geometrically frustrated spin liquid. We report the intermediate composition system Co7Zn7Mn6 to be a unique host of two disconnected, thermal-equilibrium topological skyrmion phases; one is a conventional skyrmion crystal phase stabilized by thermal fluctuations and restricted to exist just below the magnetic transition temperature T-c, and the other is a novel three-dimensionally disordered skyrmion phase that is stablewell below T-c. The stability of this new disordered skyrmion phase is due to a cooperative interplay between the chiral magnetism with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and the frustrated magnetism inherent to beta-Mn.

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DOI
10.1126/sciadv.aar7043
Web of Science ID

WOS:000449224000009

Author(s)
Karube, Kosuke
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White, Jonathan S.
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Morikawa, Daisuke
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Dewhurst, Charles D.
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Cubitt, Robert
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Kikkawa, Akiko
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Yu, Xiuzhen
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Tokunaga, Yusuke
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Arima, Taka-hisa
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Ronnow, Henrik M.  
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Date Issued

2018-09-01

Publisher

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE

Published in
Science Advances
Volume

4

Issue

9

Article Number

eaar7043

Subjects

Multidisciplinary Sciences

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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non-fermi-liquid

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lattice

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transition

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temperature

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dynamics

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mnsi

Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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LQM  
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December 13, 2018
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/152616
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