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The weak itinerant ferromagnet MnSi orders with a left-handed helical spin structure below TC = 29 K. The helicity with a vector m = [S 1× S2]/S2 along the crystallographic axis is realized by an antisymmetric Dzyaloshinski-Moriya interaction. The small angle diffraction study with polarized neutrons on a single MnSi crystal was performed within the temperature range from 10 K to TC and the magnetic field B from 1 to 350 mT. The single crystal was oriented in such a way that two axes and were set in a plane perpendicular to the incident beam. Four major diffraction peaks at ±q1 and ±q2 along the axes and four minor peaks at q = ±q1±q2 were observed. The intensity Ip = I(+/Po) + I(-P o), the polarization Pp = [I(+Po) -I(-P o)]/Ip and the position qp of the peaks were measured as a function of the temperature and the magnetic field. From intensity of the peaks the chiral critical exponent is obtained as β= 0.47 ±0.04.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | e323-e326 |
Journal | Physica B: Condensed Matter |
Volume | 350 |
Issue number | 1-3 SUPPL. 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 15 Jul 2004 |
ID: 86434210