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C. Franz

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arXiv2014

Giant generic topological Hall resistivity of MnSi under pressure

We report detailed low temperature magnetotransport and magnetization measurements in MnSi under pressures up to $\sim12\,{\rm kbar}$. Tracking the role of sample quality, pressure transmitter, and field and temperature history allows us to link the emergence of a giant topological Hall resistivity $\sim50\,{\rm nΩcm}$ to the skyrmion lattice phase at ambient pressure. We show that the remarkably large size of the topological Hall resistivity in the zero-temperature limit must be generic. We discuss various mechanisms which can lead to the much smaller signal at elevated temperatures observed at ambient pressure.

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arXiv2012

Emergent electrodynamics of skyrmions in a chiral magnet

When an electron moves in a smoothly varying non-collinear magnetic structure, its spin-orientation adapts constantly, thereby inducing forces that act on both the magnetic structure and the electron. These forces may be described by electric and magnetic fields of an emergent electrodynamics. The topologically quantized winding number of so-called skyrmions, i.e., certain magnetic whirls, discovered recently in chiral magnets are theoretically predicted to induce exactly one quantum of emergent magnetic flux per skyrmion. A moving skyrmion is therefore expected to induce an emergent electric field following Faraday's law of induction, which inherits this topological quantization. Here we report Hall effect measurements, which establish quantitatively the predicted emergent electrodynamics. This allows to obtain quantitative evidence of the depinning of skyrmions from impurities at ultra-low current densities of only 10^6 A/m^2 and their subsequent motion. The combination of exceptionally small current densities and simple transport measurements offers fundamental insights into the connection between emergent and real electrodynamics of skyrmions in chiral magnets, and promises to be important for applications in the long-term.

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arXiv2009

Skyrmion Lattice in a Doped Semiconductor

We report a comprehensive small angle neutron scattering study (SANS) of the magnetic phase diagram of the doped semiconductor Fe_{1-x}Co_{x}Si for x=0.2 and 0.25. For magnetic field parallel to the neutron beam we observe a six-fold intensity pattern under field-cooling, which identifies the A-phase of Fe_{1-x}Co_{x}Si as a skyrmion lattice. The regime of the skyrmion lattice is highly hysteretic and extents over a wide temperature range, consistent with the site disorder of the Fe and Co atoms. Our study identifies Fe_{1-x}Co_{x}Si is a second material after MnSi in which a skyrmion lattice forms and establishes that skyrmion lattices may also occur in strongly doped semiconductors.

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