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Magnetic texture evolution within uniaxial kagome ferromagnets immediately below Curie temperature

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Abstract

Magnetic textures such like skyrmion and skrmionic bubbles attracts attention in connection with topology of electronic structures. Such texture formation usually occurred slightly below Curie temperature (Tc) due to competition of micromagnetic parameters that change rapidly with approaching Tc. We examined magnetic texture within two uniaxial kagome ferromagnets: Co3Sn2S2 (Tc=176 K) studied extensively as a Weyl-semimetal and Fe3Sn2 (Tc= 657 K) interested for its massive Dirac fermions. In-situ Lorentz microscopy was performed during cooling across Tc under zero field. In Co3Sn2S2, nucleation of bubble domains followed by their spontaneous reorganization occurred in narrow temperature range immediately below Tc,, whereas the domain wall motion was mostly frozen below 160 K. The morphology of the domains also depended on cooling rate through domain wall creep associated with thermal depinning. The magnetic phase diagram is influenced by slow spin dynamics also, hence is not determined uniquely as a function of field and temperature. In contrast such creep motion did not occur in Fe3Sn2 immediately below Tc, whereas domain wall motion occurred continuously in wide temperature range down toward room temperature.

Presenters

  • Akira Sugawara

    Center for Exploratory Research, Hitachi Ltd

Authors

  • Akira Sugawara

    Center for Exploratory Research, Hitachi Ltd

  • Tetsuya Akashi

    Center for Exploratory Research, Hitachi Ltd

  • Mohamed A Kassem

    Department of Physics, Assiut University

  • Yoshikazu Tabata

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University

  • Takeshi Waki

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University

  • Hiroyuki Nakamura

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University