Magnetic surface reconstruction in the van-der-Waals antiferromagnet Fe${}_{1+x}$Te

Abstract

Fe${}_{1+x}$Te is a two dimensional van der Waals antiferromagnet that becomes superconducting on anion substitution on the Te site. The parent phase of Fe${}_{1+x}$Te is sensitive to the amount of interstitial iron situated between the iron-tellurium layers displaying collinear magnetic order coexisting with low temperature metallic resistivity for small concentrations of interstitial iron $x$ and helical magnetic order for large values of $x$. While this phase diagram has been established through scattering [see for example E. E. Rodriguez $\text{et al.}$ Phys. Rev. B $84$, 064403 (2011) and S. Rössler $\text{et al.}$ Phys. Rev. B $84$, 174506 (2011)], recent scanning tunnelling microscopy measurements [C. Trainer $\text{et al.}$ Sci. Adv. $5$, eaav3478 (2019)] have observed a different magnetic structure for small interstitial iron concentrations $x$ with a significant canting of the magnetic moments along the crystallographic $c$ axis of $\theta$=28 $\pm$ 3${}^{\circ }$. In this paper, we revisit the magnetic structure of Fe${}_{1.09}$Te using spherical neutron polarimetry and scanning tunnelling microscopy to search for this canting in the bulk phase and compare surface and bulk magnetism. The results show that the bulk magnetic structure of Fe${}_{1.09}$Te is consistent with collinear in-plane order ($\theta =0$ with an error of $\sim$ 5${}^{\circ }$). Comparison with scanning tunnelling microscopy on a series of Fe${}_{1+x}$Te samples reveals that the surface exhibits a magnetic surface reconstruction with a canting angle of the spins of $\theta =29.8^{\circ }$. We suggest that this is a consequence of structural relaxation of the surface layer resulting in an out-of-plane magnetocrystalline anisotropy. The magnetism in Fe${}_{1+x}$Te displays different properties at the surface when the symmetry constraints of the bulk are removed.

arXiv comment11 pages, 6 figures, to be Published in Phys. Rev. B

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