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Some magnetic systems display a shift in the center of their magnetic hysteresis loop away from zero field, a phenomenon termed exchange bias. Despite the extensive use of the exchange bias effect, particularly in magnetic multilayers, for…
Co$_3$Sn$_2$S$_2$ has recently been predicted to be a Weyl semimetal in which magnetic order is key to its behavior as a topological material. Here we report unpolarized neutron diffraction and spherical neutron polarimetry measurements,…
In this letter, we report the discovery of a new class of spintronic materials, namely spin semi-metals (SSM), employing both theoretical and experimental tools. The band structure of this class of materials is such that one of the spin…
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Complex systems with coexisting polarity, chirality and incommensurate magnetism are of great interest because they open new degrees of freedom in interaction between different subsystems and therefore they host a plethora of intriguing…