We report an experimental and computational study of the Hall effect in Mn1−xFexSi, as complemented by measurements in Mn1−xCoxSi, when helimagnetic order is suppressed under substitutional doping. For small x the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) and the topological Hall effect (THE) change sign. Under larger doping the AHE remains small and consistent with the magnetization, while the THE grows by over a factor of ten. Both the sign and the magnitude of the AHE and the THE are in excellent agreement with calculations based on density functional theory. Our study provides the long-sought material-specific microscopic justification, that while the AHE is due to the reciprocal-space Berry curvature, the THE originates in real-space Berry phases.PACS numbers: 71.15.Mb, 71.20.Be Measurements of the Hall effect in chiral magnets with B20 crystal structure have recently attracted great interest [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Due to a hierarchy of energy scales [8], comprising in decreasing strength ferromagnetic exchange, Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya (DM) spin-orbit interactions, and higher order spin-orbit coupling terms, magnetic order in these systems displays generically long-wavelength helical modulations. Under a small applied magnetic field this hierarchy of energy scales stabilizes a skyrmion lattice phase (SLP) in the vicinity of the magnetic transition temperature, i.e., a lattice composed of topologically non-trivial whirls of the magnetization [9-16]. The Hall effect, which has been studied most extensively in MnSi [1][2][3][17][18][19], displays thereby three contributions, notably an ordinary Hall effect (OHE), an anomalous Hall effect (AHE) related to the uniform magnetization, and an additional topological Hall effect (THE) in the SLP due to the non-trivial topology of the spin order.It was only recently noticed that the THE and AHE represent the real-and reciprocal-space limits of generalised phase-space Berry phases of the conduction electrons, respectively. First principles calculations in MnSi suggest that these phase-space Berry phases account quantitatively for the DM interaction and may even give rise to an electric charge of the skyrmions [20,21]. However, so far perhaps most spectacular because of the experimental evidence is the notion that the non-trivial topological winding of skyrmions gives rise to Berry phases in real space that may be viewed as an emergent magnetic field B eff = Φ 0 Φ of one flux quantum (Φ 0 = h/e) times the winding number Φ = −1 per skyrmion [1]. The same mechanism also leads to large spin transfer torques in MnSi [22,23] and FeGe at ultralow current densities. In turn, a very large THE in MnGe [4] and SrFeO 3 [5] has fuelled speculations that the emergent fields may even approach the quantum limit.Despite this wide range of interest, the account of Berry phases in the Hall effect has been essentially phenomenological, in particular for the THE, while a material-specific microscopic justification has been missing. This situation is aggravated by the microscopic sensitivity of the TH...
We present a magnetic phase diagram of rare-earth pyrochlore Yb_{2}Ti_{2}O_{7} in a ⟨111⟩ magnetic field. Using heat capacity, magnetization, and neutron scattering data, we show an unusual field dependence of a first-order phase boundary, wherein a small applied field increases the ordering temperature. The zero-field ground state has ferromagnetic domains, while the spins polarize along ⟨111⟩ above 0.65 T. A classical Monte Carlo analysis of published Hamiltonians does account for the critical field in the low T limit. However, this analysis fails to account for the large bulge in the reentrant phase diagram, suggesting that either long-range interactions or quantum fluctuations govern low field properties.
We report single crystal growth of the series of CeT Al 3 compounds with T = Cu, Ag, Au, Pd and Pt by means of optical float zoning. High crystalline quality was confirmed in a thorough characterization process. With the exception of CeAgAl 3 , all compounds crystallize in the non-centrosymmetric tetragonal BaNiSn 3 structure (space group: I4mm, No. 107), whereas CeAgAl 3 adopts the related orthorhombic PbSbO 2 Cl structure (Cmcm, No. 63). An attempt to grow CeNiAl 3 resulted in the composition CeNi 2 Al 5 . Low temperature resistivity measurements down to ∼0.1 K did not reveal evidence suggestive of magnetic order in CePtAl 3 and CePdAl 3 . In contrast, CeAuAl 3 , CeCuAl 3 and CeAgAl 3 display signatures of magnetic transitions at 1.3 K, 2.1 K and 3.2 K, respectively. This is consistent with previous reports of antiferromagnetic order in CeAuAl 3 , and CeCuAl 3 as well as ferromagnetism in CeAgAl 3 , respectively.
In the quest to realize a quantum spin liquid (QSL), magnetic long-range order is hardly welcome. Yet it can offer deep insights into a complex world of strong correlations and fluctuations. Much hope was placed in the cubic pyrochlore Yb2Ti2O7 as a putative U(1) QSL but a new class of ultrapure single crystals make it abundantly clear the stoichiometric compound is a ferromagnet. Here we present a detailed experimental and theoretical study of the corresponding field-temperature phase diagram. We find it to be richly anisotropic with a critical endpoint for B 100 , while field parallel to 110 and 111 enhances the critical temperature by up to a factor of two and shifts the onset of the field-polarized state to finite fields. Landau theory shows that Yb2Ti2O7 in some ways is remarkably similar to pure iron. However, it also pinpoints anomalies that cannot be accounted for at the classical mean-field level including a dramatic enhancement of TC and reentrant phase boundary by fields with a component transverse to the easy axes, as well as the anisotropy of the upper critical field in the quantum limit.
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