“…Contrary to the expected analogy to the MnSi films, helicoidal states with integer turns seems to be energetically favored in our FeGe thin films, and the transformation between these integer-turn states is realized through an incommensurate state, whose helicoidal period is observed to continuously change with variation of H in . In accordance with remarkable differences observed in magnetic properties between MnSi and FeGe, e.g., saturated moment, helical period, and so on [37], our measurements show that the magnetic boundary conditions that control the helicoidal order in thin films are also different [38,39]. We thus propose that there may exist a periodic boundary condition, which can show up in a finite size system, so as to stabilize helicoidal states with integer periods in FeGe thin films.…”