Related papers: Tailoring Magnetic Frustration in Strained Epitaxi…
We present an extensive powder and single-crystal neutron scattering investigation of the crystallographic structure and magnetic order of the frustrated metallic $f$-electron magnet UNi$_4$B. We carry out a full refinement of the…
By performing first-principles calculations in conjunction with Monte Carlo simulations, we systematically investigated the frustrated magnetic states induced by in-plane compressive strain in LiCrTe$_{2}$. Our calculations support that the…
In ferromagnetic thin films, the presence of an out-of-plane component of the magnetic anisotropy may induce a transition from planar to stripe-like magnetic domains above a critical thickness, $t_c$. Because of the changes in the domain…
In recent years the intermetallic alloys of Fe and Sn have gained significant interest due to a rich variety of magnetic properties present in these materials. The crystal Fe3Sn2 is a frustrated ferromagnet, while the crystallographically…
The influence of magnetostriction on static fluctuations of the magnetic moment in ferromagnetic polycrystals has been theoretically studied. Conditions have been found under which magnetoelastic interaction leads to stabilization of…
We explore possibility of tuning photonic crystal properties via order-disorder transition. We fabricated a photonic bandgap material consisting of a three-dimensional array of conducting magnetizable spheres. The spheres self-assemble into…
We investigate the fate of the orthorhombic stripe-type magnetic state (ordering vectors $\left(\pi,0\right)$/$\left(0,\pi\right)$), observed in most iron-pnictide superconductors, in the presence of localized magnetic moments that tend to…
By means of first-principles electronic structure calculations, we hereby investigate the structural transitions induced by epitaxial strain in (111)-oriented (LaMnO$_3$)$_{2n}|$(SrMnO$_3$)$_n$ superlattices, with $n=2,4,6$. All…
The discovery of ferroelectricity in both pure and doped HfO$_2$-based thin films have revitalized the interest in using ferroelectrics for nanoscale device applications. To take advantage of this silicon-compatible ferroelectric,…
The low-energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene form Dirac cones with approximate electron-hole symmetry at small rotation angles. These crossings are protected by the emergent symmetries of moir\'e patterns, conferring a topological…
Competing magnetic anisotropies in chiral crystals with Dzyaloshinskii Moriya exchange interactions can give rise to non-trivial chiral topological magnetisation configurations with new and interesting properties. One such configuration is…
The confluence between high-energy physics and condensed matter has produced groundbreaking results via unexpected connections between the two traditionally disparate areas. In this work, we elucidate additional connectivity between…
In the eta-carbide-type correlated-electron metal Fe3Mo3N, ferromagnetism is abruptly induced from a nonmagnetic non-Fermi-liquid ground state either when a magnetic field (~14 T) applied to it or when it is doped with a slight amount of…
We present a detailed study of the ground-state magnetic structure of ultrathin Fe films on the surface of fcc Ir(001). We use the spin-cluster expansion technique in combination with the relativistic disordered local moment scheme to…
The recent identification of $\alpha$-MnTe as a candidate altermagnet has attracted considerable interest, particularly for its potential application in magnetic random-access memory. However, the development of high-quality thin films -…
The locally varying tetragonality in martensite grains of a high-carbon steel (1.2 mass percent C) was resolved by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) with a spatial resolution in the order of 100nm. Compared to spatially integrating…
The structural and magnetic properties of sputter-deposited Fe$_{100-x}$Ru$_x$ films were studied for $x \leq 50$. The crystal structure of Fe$_{100-x}$Ru$_x$ is shown to be predominantly body-centered cubic for $x<13$ and to undergo a…
Epitaxial thin film fabrication of iron oxides including magnetite Fe3O4 and epsilon-ferrite epsilon-Fe2O3 with the potential for advancing electromagnetic devices has been investigated, which led to the first ever epsilon-ferrite epitaxial…
Ternary iron nitrides are of considerable interest due to their diverse magnetic properties. We find, based on first principles calculations, that the relatively minor structural distortion from the cubic antiperovskite structure in…
The magnetic order in antiferromagnetic (AF) materials is hard to control with external magnetic fields. However, recent advances in detecting and manipulating AF order electrically have opened up new prospects for these materials in basic…