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Exploring a Magnetic Phase Transition in Amorphous FeGe Using X-ray Scattering.

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Abstract

The rich phase diagram of crystalline B20 FeGe, which hosts skyrmions, spin helices, and conical helices, arises due to the competition between the Heisenberg exchange interaction, which favors collinear spins, and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), which favors an angle between adjacent spins. Broken inversion symmetry in the crystalline structure is typically considered to be the origin of DMI. Amorphous FeGe has no well-defined crystalline lattice but still exhibits DMI and hosts magnetic spin textures. In this talk, I present results from resonant X-ray scattering studies on a magnetic phase transition in amorphous FeGe between an ordered stripe phase and a disordered paramagnetic phase.

Presenters

  • Ryan Tumbleson

    University of California, Santa Cruz

Authors

  • Ryan Tumbleson

    University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Emily M Hollingworth

    University of California, Berkeley

  • ARNAB SINGH

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Ahmad Us Saleheen

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Margaret R McCarter

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

  • David Raftrey

    University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Sophie A Morley

    Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

  • Stephen D Kevan

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Peter Fischer

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Frances Hellman

    University of California, Berkeley

  • Sujoy Roy

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBL