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Unidirectional anisotropy in cubic FeGe with antisymmetric spin-spin-coupling

Materials Science 2020-04-02 v2

Abstract

We report strong unidirectional anisotropy in bulk polycrystalline B20 FeGe measured by ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy. Bulk and micron-sized samples were produced and analytically characterized. FeGe is a B20 compound with inherent Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Lorenz microscopy confirms a skyrmion lattice at 190  K190 \; \text{K} in a magnetic field of 150 mT. Ferromagnetic resonance was measured at 276  K±1  K276 \; \text{K} \pm 1 \; \text{K}, near the Curie temperature. Two resonance modes were observed, both exhibit a unidirectional anisotropy of K=1153  J/m3±10  J/m3K=1153 \; \text{J/m}^3 \pm 10 \; \text{J/m}^3 in the primary, and K=28  J/m3±2  J/m3K=28 \; \text{J/m}^3 \pm 2 \; \text{J/m}^3 in the secondary mode, previously unknown in bulk ferromagnets. Additionally, about 25 standing spin wave modes are observed inside a micron-sized FeGe wedge, measured at room temperature (  293\sim \; 293 K). These modes also exhibit unidirectional anisotropy.

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@article{arxiv.1902.02665,
  title  = {Unidirectional anisotropy in cubic FeGe with antisymmetric spin-spin-coupling},
  author = {Nicolas Josten and Thomas Feggeler and Detlef Spoddig and Iliya Radulov and Marina Spasova and Ke Chai and Zi-An Li and Ralf Meckenstock and Oliver Gutfleisch and Michael Farle and Benjamin Zingsem},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.02665},
  year   = {2020}
}
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