Competing anisotropies in the chiral cubic magnet Co${}_8$Zn${}_8$Mn${}_4$ unveiled by resonant x-ray magnetic scattering

Victor Ukleev, Oleg I. Utesov, Chen Luo +11

The cubic $\beta$-Mn-type alloy Co${}_8$Zn${}_8$Mn${}_4$ is a chiral helimagnet that exhibits a peculiar temperature-dependent behavior in the spiral pitch, which decreases from 130 nm at ro…