Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: We present a comprehensive study of chiral fluctuations in the reference helimagnet MnSi by polarized neutron scattering and neutron spin echo spectroscopy, which reveals the existence of a completely left-handed and dynamically disordered phase. This phase may be identified as a spontaneous Skyrmion phase: it appears in a limited temperature range just above the helical transition T_{C} and coexists with the helical phase at T_{C}.
Source: Physical Review Letters
Language: English
Subfield: Condensed Matter Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: European Commission
Awards: G310897279, G5984154113
OpenAlex ID: W2095653271