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Critical small-angle scattering of polarised neutrons in MnSi. / Georgii, R.; Böni, P.; Lamago, D.; Stüber, S.; Grigoriev, S. V.; Maleyev, S. V.; Okorokov, A. I.; Eckerlebe, H.; Pranzas, P. K.; Roessli, B.; Fischer, W. E.
In: Physica B: Condensed Matter, Vol. 350, No. 1-3, 30.07.2004, p. 45-47.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Critical small-angle scattering of polarised neutrons in MnSi
AU - Georgii, R.
AU - Böni, P.
AU - Lamago, D.
AU - Stüber, S.
AU - Grigoriev, S. V.
AU - Maleyev, S. V.
AU - Okorokov, A. I.
AU - Eckerlebe, H.
AU - Pranzas, P. K.
AU - Roessli, B.
AU - Fischer, W. E.
N1 - Funding Information: The PNPI-team acknowledges GKSS for their hospitality. The work is supported in part by the President grant SS-1671.2003.2 and the Russian State Program “Neutron Research of Solids”.
PY - 2004/7/30
Y1 - 2004/7/30
N2 - The chiral fluctuations in the weak itinerant magnet MnSi were studied by means of small-angle neutron scattering with polarized neutrons. Due to the lack of a centre of symmetry, the magnetic moments are arranged along a left-handed spiral due to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction. The experiments show that the incommensurate magnetic peaks evolve with increasing temperature into diffuse scattering that is mainly concentrated in a ring with the radius q c=0.039 Å-1 centred at the position of the direct beam q=0. The scattering is fully polarised for Q||P0 and depolarised for Q⊥P0 proving that the scattering is chiral and that the spiral has a unique handiness. From the data, we have determined the critical exponents of the magnetisation, the susceptibility and the correlation lengths of the chiral fluctuations. The results are discussed in the framework of the renormalisation theory.
AB - The chiral fluctuations in the weak itinerant magnet MnSi were studied by means of small-angle neutron scattering with polarized neutrons. Due to the lack of a centre of symmetry, the magnetic moments are arranged along a left-handed spiral due to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction. The experiments show that the incommensurate magnetic peaks evolve with increasing temperature into diffuse scattering that is mainly concentrated in a ring with the radius q c=0.039 Å-1 centred at the position of the direct beam q=0. The scattering is fully polarised for Q||P0 and depolarised for Q⊥P0 proving that the scattering is chiral and that the spiral has a unique handiness. From the data, we have determined the critical exponents of the magnetisation, the susceptibility and the correlation lengths of the chiral fluctuations. The results are discussed in the framework of the renormalisation theory.
KW - Critical exponents
KW - DM interaction
KW - Polarised SANS
KW - Spin chirality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=3242733160&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.physb.2004.04.055
DO - 10.1016/j.physb.2004.04.055
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:3242733160
VL - 350
SP - 45
EP - 47
JO - Physica B: Condensed Matter
JF - Physica B: Condensed Matter
SN - 0921-4526
IS - 1-3
ER -
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