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Field-induced reorientation of helimagnetic order in Cu2OSeO3 probed by magnetic force microscopy

Milde, Peter
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Koehler, Laura
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Neuber, Erik
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July 17, 2020
Physical Review B

Cu2OSeO3 is an insulating skyrmion-host material with a magnetoelectric coupling giving rise to an electric polarization with a characteristic dependence on the magnetic-field (H) over right arrow. We report a magnetic force microscopy imaging of the helical real-space spin structure on the surface of a bulk single crystal of Cu2OSeO3. In the presence of a magnetic field, the helimagnetic order, in general, reorients and acquires a homogeneous component of the magnetization, resulting in a conical arrangement at larger fields. We investigate this reorientation process at a temperature of 10 K for fields close to the crystallographic < 110 > direction that involves a phase transition at H-c1. Experimental evidence is presented for the formation of magnetic domains in real space as well as for the microscopic origin of relaxation events that accompany the reorientation process. In addition, the electric polarization is measured by means of Kelvin-probe force microscopy. We show that the characteristic field dependency of the electric polarization originates in this helimagnetic reorientation process. Our experimental results are well described by an effective Landau theory previously invoked for MnSi, that captures the competition between magnetocrystalline anisotropies and Zeeman energy.

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research article
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.102.024426
Web of Science ID

WOS:000549756800006

Author(s)
Milde, Peter
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Koehler, Laura
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Neuber, Erik
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Ritzinger, Philipp
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Garst, Markus
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Bauer, Andreas
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Pfleiderer, Christian
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Berger, Helmuth  
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Eng, Lukas M.
Date Issued

2020-07-17

Publisher

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Published in
Physical Review B
Volume

102

Issue

2

Article Number

024426

Subjects

Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Physics, Applied

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Physics, Condensed Matter

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Materials Science

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Physics

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skyrmion lattice

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wave-vector

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

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July 31, 2020
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