Karube, KosukeWhite, Jonathan S.Morikawa, DaisukeDewhurst, Charles D.Cubitt, RobertKikkawa, AkikoYu, XiuzhenTokunaga, YusukeArima, Taka-hisaRonnow, Henrik M.Tokura, YoshinoriTaguchi, Yasujiro2018-12-132018-12-132018-12-132018-09-0110.1126/sciadv.aar7043https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/152616WOS:000449224000009Magnetic 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.Multidisciplinary SciencesScience & Technology - Other Topicsnon-fermi-liquidlatticetransitiontemperaturedynamicsmnsitext::journal::journal article::research article