Publications (21)
Magnetization process of atacamite: a case of weakly coupled sawtooth chains
L. Heinze, H. O. Jeschke, I. I. Mazin +17
We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of the mineral atacamite CuCl(OH). Density functional theory yields a Hamiltonian describing anisotropic sawtooth c…
MnSi-nanostructures obtained from thin films: magnetotransport and Hall effect
D. Schroeter, N. Steinki, M. Schilling +6
We present a comparative study of the (magneto)transport properties, including Hall effect, of bulk, thin film and nanostructured MnSi. In order to set our results in relation to p…
Structural disorder versus chiral magnetism in CrNbS
V. Dyadkin, F. Mushenok, A. Bosak +4
The crystal structure of a disordered form of CrNbS has been characterized using diffraction and inelastic scattering of synchrotron radiation. In contrast to the previ…
Competing Ordering Modes in the Distorted Quantum Kagome Material Clinoatacamite CuCl(OH)
L. Stödter, C. Kastner, H. O. Jeschke +20
We have studied the magnetic properties of clinoatacamite CuCl(OH), the parent compound of the quantum spin liquid candidate herbertsmithite and a longstanding puzzle among…
Near coincidence of metal-insulator transition and quantum critical fluctuations: Electronic ground state and magnetic order in FeCoSi
J. Grefe, P. Herre, Y. Hilgers +7
We present a detailed study of the electronic and magnetic ground state properties of FeCoSi using a combination of macroscopic and microscopic experimental technique…
Magnetic and electronic phases of URhSi
J. Willwater, N. Steinki, R. Reuter +7
We present a detailed study of the magnetic and electronic properties of URhSi, a material that has been demonstrated to exhibit a first order antiferromagnetic phase t…
O- and H- induced surface core level shifts on Ru(0001): Prevalence of the additivity rule
S. Lizzit, Y. Zhang, K. L. Kostov +4
In previous work on adsorbate-induced surface core level shifts (SCLSs), the effects caused by O atom adsorption on Rh(111) and Ru(0001) were found to be additive: the measured shi…
The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is under control: an orchestrated flip of the chiral link between structure and magnetism for FeCoSi
S. -A. Siegfried, E. V. Altynbaev, N. M. Chubova +7
Monosilicides of 3d-metals frequently show a chiral magnetic ordering with the absolute configuration defined by the chirality of the crystal structure and the sign of the Dzyalosh…
Magnetoresistance in the helical itinerant magnets MnSi and MnCoSi
A. E. Petrova, S. Yu. Gavrilkin, D. Menzel +2
We studied the longitudinal and transverse magnetoresistance of helical magnets, MnSi and MnCoSi, at temperatures between 1.8 and 100~K and in magnetic fields up to 9 T…
Cubic magnetic anisotropy in 20 magnets: Interplay of anisotropy and magnetic order in FeCoSi
G. Gödecke, A. O. Leonov, J. Grefe +2
The metallic systems MnSi and FeCoSi are known to feature a generic magnetic phase diagram primarily determined by the isotropic exchange and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya in…
Fragile balance of the exchange interactions in MnCoGe compounds
E. Altynbaev, S. -A. Siegfried, P. Strauà +5
The magnetic system of the pseudobinary compound MnCoGe has been studied using small-angle neutron scattering and SQUID-measurements. It is found that MnCo$_{…
Surface Core Level Shifts of Clean and Oxygen Covered Ru(0001)
S. Lizzit, A. Baraldi, A. Groso +8
We have performed high resolution XPS experiments of the Ru(0001) surface, both clean and covered with well-defined amounts of oxygen up to 1 ML coverage. For the clean surface we…
Effect of interactions and non-uniform magnetic states on the magnetization reversal of iron nanowire arrays
I. S. Dubitskiy, A. H. A. Elmekawy, E. G. Iashina +4
Ordered ferromagnetic nanowire arrays are widely studied due to the diversity of possible applications. However, there is still no complete understanding of the relation between th…
Anisotropy of spin waves in the field-polarized phase of Fe-doped MnSi
I. N. Khoroshiy, A. Podlesnyak, D. Menzel +4
Chiral magnetic textures, such as skyrmions, are of great interest to the condensed matter community due to their novel transport properties. The stabilization of topologically non…
Flat-band spin dynamics and phonon anomalies of the saw-tooth spin-chain system FeO(SeO)
V. P. Gnezdilov, Yu. G. Pashkevich, V. S. Kurnosov +11
Fe ions form saw-tooth like chains along the axis of the oxo-selenite FeO(SeO) and an onset of long-range magnetic order is observed for temperatur…
Electronic ground state of MnB
N. Steinki, J. L. Winter, D. Schulze Grachtrup +4
Recent studies have dealt with the electronic and magnetic ground state properties of the tetraboride material MnB. So far, however, the ground state properties could not be es…
Electron-phonon interaction and spectral weight transfer in FeCoSi
D. Menzel, P. Popovich, N. N. Kovaleva +3
A comprehensive ellipsometric study was performed on FeCoSi single crystals in the spectral range from 0.01 eV to 6.2 eV. Direct and indirect band gaps of 73 meV and…
Unusual criticality of Cu2Te2O5Br2 under pressure
J. Kreitlow, S. Suellow, D. Menzel +3
We present measurements of the magnetic susceptibility chi(T) on Cu2Te2O5Br2 under externally applied pressure. From our data we extract the pressure response of the antiferromagne…
Low-Temperature Skyrmions and Spiral Reorientation Processes in Chiral Magnets with Cubic Anisotropy: Guidelines for Bridging Theory and Experiment
A. O. Leonov, G. Gödecke, J. Grefe +2
We revisit the phenomenological Dzyaloshinskii framework, a central theoretical approach for describing magnetization processes in bulk chiral magnets, and demonstrate how magnetoc…
Hidden quantum phase transition in MnFeGe: evidence brought by small-angle neutron scattering
E. Altynbaev, S. -A. Siegfried, E. Moskvin +7
The magnetic system of the MnFeGe solid solution is ordered in a spiral spin structure in the whole concentration range of . The close inspection of th…
Adsorbate-induced Surface Stiffening: Surface Lattice Dynamics of Ru(001)-(1x1)-O
T. Moritz, W. Widdra, D. Menzel +2
The dynamical properties of the high-density Ru(001)-(11)-O phase has been investigated by a combined high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy and density function…