Frustrated magnetic helices in MnSi-type crystals
arXiv:1109.6163 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.85.014421
Abstract
The spiral magnetic order in cubic MnSi-type crystals is considered using the model of classical Heisenberg ferromagnetics with an extra interaction of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) type between neighboring atoms. It is found how the wave vector of magnetic helices depends on DM vector. The wave number k determines both the sign and strength of global spiraling whereas locally, within a unit cell, the helical order can be strongly frustrated so that the twist angles between neighboring ferromagnetic layers may be even of different signs. Conical deformations of helices caused by an arbitrary directed external magnetic field is also considered within the same model. The critical field of helix unwinding is found and it is shown that even in the unwound state there remains a residual periodic splay of magnetic moments which can be measured by diffraction methods. It is also demonstrated how the usually used continuous picture of moment distribution can be obtained from the discrete one in a coarse grain approximation.
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