TY - JOUR
T1 - Universality of the helimagnetic transition in cubic chiral magnets: Small angle neutron scattering and neutron spin echo spectroscopy studies of FeCoSi
AU - Bannenberg, Lars
AU - Kakurai, K.
AU - Falus, P.
AU - Lelievre-Berna, E.
AU - Dalgliesh, R.
AU - Dewhurst, C.D.
AU - Qian, Fengjiao
AU - Onose, Y.
AU - Endoh, Y.
AU - Tokura, Y.
AU - Pappas, Catherine
PY - 2017/4/28
Y1 - 2017/4/28
N2 - We present a comprehensive Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) and Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy (NSE) study of the structural and dynamical aspects of the helimagnetic transition in Fe1-xCoxSi with x = 0.30. In contrast to the sharp transition observed in the archetype chiral magnet MnSi, the transition in Fe1-xCoxSi is gradual and long-range helimagnetic ordering coexists with short-range correlations over a wide temperature range. The dynamics are more complex than in MnSi and involve long relaxation times with a stretched exponential relaxation which persists even under magnetic field. These results in conjunction with an analysis of the hierarchy of the relevant length scales show that the helimagnetic transition in Fe1-xCoxSi differs substantially from the transition in MnSi and question the validity of a universal approach to the helimagnetic transition in chiral magnets.
AB - We present a comprehensive Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) and Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy (NSE) study of the structural and dynamical aspects of the helimagnetic transition in Fe1-xCoxSi with x = 0.30. In contrast to the sharp transition observed in the archetype chiral magnet MnSi, the transition in Fe1-xCoxSi is gradual and long-range helimagnetic ordering coexists with short-range correlations over a wide temperature range. The dynamics are more complex than in MnSi and involve long relaxation times with a stretched exponential relaxation which persists even under magnetic field. These results in conjunction with an analysis of the hierarchy of the relevant length scales show that the helimagnetic transition in Fe1-xCoxSi differs substantially from the transition in MnSi and question the validity of a universal approach to the helimagnetic transition in chiral magnets.
UR - http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3611a818-1a52-4be3-aa95-08ba3b78f25f
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05448
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.144433
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.144433
M3 - Article
SN - 1098-0121
VL - 95
JO - Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics)
JF - Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics)
IS - 14
M1 - 144433
ER -