Thin Film Growth of Heavy Fermion Chiral Magnet YbNi3Al9
arXiv:2103.05949 · doi:10.1063/5.0035385
Abstract
We grew thin films of a heavy fermion chiral magnet YbNiAl by using molecular beam epitaxy. They were grown on -plane sapphire substrates under ultra-high vacuum while maintaining a deposition rate at a stoichiometric ratio among Yb, Ni, and Al. The resulting thin films contain epitaxial grains with a axis parallel to the substrate surface: The YbNiAl axis is parallel to the sapphire or axis. The temperature dependence of the resistivity exhibits a typical feature of a dense Kondo system with a broad shoulder structure at 40\,K, as well as a kink as a signature of the chiral helimagnetic ordering at 3.6\,K. These features are consistent with those previously observed in bulk samples. The shift in the kink associated with the field-induced phase transition is found in the magnetoresistance curves under a magnetic field applied in the direction perpendicular to the -axis. The magnetic phase diagram well reproduces that for the bulk crystals, implying that the chiral soliton lattice phase arises under magnetic fields, even in thin films.
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