We investigated the magnetic structure and dynamics of YbMnBi2, with elastic and inelastic neutron scattering, to shed light on the topological nature of the charge carriers in the antiferromagnetic phase. We confirm C-type antiferromagnetic ordering of the Mn spins below TN = 290 K, and determine that the spins point along the c-axis to within about 3 • . The observed magnon spectrum can be described very well by the same effective spin Hamiltonian as was used previously to model the magnon spectrum of CaMnBi2. Our results show conclusively that the creation of Weyl nodes in YbMnBi2 by the time-reversal-symmetry breaking mechanism can be excluded in the bulk.
Diblock copolymer thin films of polystyrene‐block‐poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PS‐b‐PDMS) featuring PDMS cylinders in a PS matrix are investigated during solvent vapor annealing with mixtures of n‐heptane (which is strongly selective for PDMS) and toluene (which is close to nonselective for both blocks). Swelling in the vapor of one of the pure solvents and exchanging it stepwise by the vapor of the other solvent is compared to swelling in a given binary solvent vapor mixture for a prolonged time. The resulting structural changes, such as ordering of the cylinders on a hexagonal lattice and their transition into lamellae, are followed using in situ, real‐time grazing‐incidence small‐angle X‐ray scattering (GISAXS). In three runs, the sequence of solvent vapor swelling and vapor exchange is varied. Compiling the resulting morphologies in a diagram of states in dependence on the solvent content in the film and in the minority nanodomains allows insight into the role of the glass transition of the PS matrix for the ordering processes and their time scales. Based on these findings, a protocol is suggested to efficiently obtain an order‐to‐order transition from the cylindrical morphology with random domain orientation to the oriented lamellar state.
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