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Soliton locking phenomenon in bulk single crystal of monoaxial chiral magnet MnNb3S6

Published:2023-02-27 Issue:9 Volume:122 Page:
ISSN:0003-6951
Container-title:Applied Physics Letters
language:en
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Author:

Ohkuma M.¹^ORCID,Mito M.¹²^ORCID,Kousaka Y.²³^ORCID,Ohe J.⁴^ORCID,Akimitsu J.²⁵,Kishine J.²⁶⁷^ORCID,Inoue K.²⁸⁹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology 1 , Kitakyushu 804-8550, Japan

2. Chirality Research Center, Hiroshima University 2 , Higashihiroshima 739-8526, Japan

3. Department of Physics and Electronics, Osaka Metropolitan University 3 , 1-1 Gakuencho, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan

4. Department of Physics, Toho University 4 , Funabashi, Chiba 274-8510, Japan

5. Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Okayama University 5 , Okayama 700-8530, Japan

6. Division of Natural and Environmental Sciences, The Open University of Japan 6 , Chiba 261-8586, Japan

7. Institute for Molecular Science 7 , 38 Nishigo-Naka, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan

8. Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University 8 , Higashihiroshima 739-8526, Japan

9. Institute for Advanced Materials Research, Hiroshima University 9 , Higashihiroshima 739-8526, Japan

Abstract

MnNb3S6 is a monoaxial chiral magnet and stabilizes magnetic solitons in the presence of a magnetic field (H). The number of solitons can be controlled by varying H. Furthermore, MnNb3S6 exhibits magnetization relaxation due to soliton annihilation, that is, a nonequilibrium chiral soliton lattice (CSL) state. In this study, we observed soliton locking phenomena in a CSL state on bulk MnNb3S6 crystal, as on micro-processed crystals of CrNb3S6. Thus, we could create nonequilibrium and equilibrium CSL states and switch between them. A numerical simulation revealed that the soliton number was preserved in the soliton locking region; thus, magnetization relaxation was not observed.

Funder

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

JSPS KAKENHI

Center for Chiral Science in Hiroshima University

JSPS Core-to-Core Program, A. Advanced Research Networks

Publisher

AIP Publishing

Subject

Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

Link

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article-pdf/doi/10.1063/5.0137379/16784787/092403_1_online.pdf

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