Spin-wave dynamics in Mn-doped FeGe helimagnet: Small-angle neutron scattering study

Authors:
S. V. Grigoriev, E. V. Altynbaev, S.-A.Siegfried, K. A. Pshenichnyi, D. Honnecker, A. Heinemann, A. V. Tsvyashchenko
The year of the publication:
2017
Journal:
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials N 11 050
Keywords:
Spin-wave stiffness, Full-polarized state, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya, DM, helimagnet, FeGe, Mn-doped FeGe, Doping
Abstract:

We report on the measurements of the spin-wave stiffness A and its temperature dependence close to TC for two compounds: FeGe and the solid solution Fe0.8Mn0.2Ge. The small-angle neutron scattering was used to detect the inelastic scattering in the magnetic field above the transition from the conical to the field-polarized state. This inelastic contribution is shaped as two circles on a neutron scattering map. Their radius is directly related to the spin wave stiffness A that decreases with a temperature but has a finite value at Tc for both compounds. Since the softening of spin waves near Tc, which is expected for a second-order phase transition, is not observed, we make a conclusion about the transition as having a first-order nature.

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