凝聚态物理
克尔效应
薄膜
反铁磁性
成核
材料科学
磁滞
磁光克尔效应
磁畴
光学
物理
磁化
磁场
纳米技术
热力学
非线性系统
量子力学
作者
Tomohiro Uchimura,Ju-Young Yoon,Yuma Sato,Yoichi Takeuchi,Shun Kanai,Ryota Takechi,Keisuke Kishi,Yuta Yamane,Samik DuttaGupta,Jun’ichi Ieda,Hideo Ohno,Shunsuke Fukami
摘要
We perform hysteresis-loop measurement and domain imaging for (11¯00)-oriented D019-Mn3+xSn1-x (−0.11≤x≤0.14) thin films using the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) and compare it with the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) measurement. We obtain a large Kerr rotation angle of 10 mdeg, comparable with bulk single-crystal Mn3Sn. The composition x dependence of AHE and MOKE shows a similar trend, suggesting the same origin, i.e., the non-vanishing Berry curvature in the momentum space. Magnetic domain observation at the saturated state shows that x dependence of AHE and MOKE is explained by the amount of the reversible area that crucially depends on the crystalline structure of the film. Furthermore, in-depth observation of the reversal process reveals that the reversal starts with nucleation of sub-micrometer-scale domains dispersed in the film, followed by domain expansion, where the domain wall preferentially propagates along the [112¯0] direction. Our study provides a basic understanding of the spatial evolution of the reversal of the chiral-spin structure in non-collinear antiferromagnetic thin films.
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