| Literature DB >> 31395744 |
Takashi Kurumaji1, Taro Nakajima2, Max Hirschberger2, Akiko Kikkawa2, Yuichi Yamasaki2,3,4, Hajime Sagayama5, Hironori Nakao5, Yasujiro Taguchi2, Taka-Hisa Arima2,6, Yoshinori Tokura2,7.
Abstract
Geometrically frustrated magnets can host complex spin textures, leading to unconventional electromagnetic responses. Magnetic frustration may also promote topologically nontrivial spin states such as magnetic skyrmions. Experimentally, however, skyrmions have largely been observed in noncentrosymmetric lattice structures or interfacial symmetry-breaking heterostructures. Here, we report the emergence of a Bloch-type skyrmion state in the frustrated centrosymmetric triangular-lattice magnet Gd2PdSi3 We observed a giant topological Hall response, indicating a field-induced skyrmion phase, which is further corroborated by the observation of in-plane spin modulation probed by resonant x-ray scattering. Our results may lead to further discoveries of emergent electrodynamics in magnetically frustrated centrosymmetric materials.Year: 2019 PMID: 31395744 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau0968
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728