Double- Q ground state with topological charge stripes in the centrosymmetric skyrmion candidate GdRu 2 Si 2

Autor: Wood, G. D. A., Khalyavin, D. D., Petrenko, O. A., Lees, M. R., Balakrishnan, G., Mayoh, D. A., Bouaziz, Juba, Hall, A. E., Holt, S. J. R., Orlandi, F., Manuel, P., Blügel, S., Staunton, J. B.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Physical review / B 107(18), L180402 (2023). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.107.L180402
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.L180402
Popis: GdRu2Si2 is a centrosymmetric magnet in which a skyrmion lattice has recently been discovered. Here, we investigate the magnetic structure of the zero-field ground state using neutron diffraction on single crystal and polycrystalline 160GdRu2Si2. In addition to observing the principal propagation vectors q1 and q2, we discover higher-order magnetic satellites, notably q1+2q2. The appearance of these satellites is explained within the framework of a double-Q constant-moment solution. Using powder diffraction, we implement a quantitative refinement of this model. This structure, which contains vortexlike motifs, is shown to have a one-dimensional topological charge density.
Databáze: OpenAIRE