Abstract
Recently, magnetic antiskyrmions were discovered in Mn1.4Pt0.9Pd0.1Sn, an inverse tetragonal Heusler compound that is nominally a ferrimagnet, but which can only be formed with substantial Mn vacancies. The vacancies reduce considerably the compensation of the moments between the two expected antiferromagnetically coupled Mn sub-lattices so that the overall magnetization is very high and the compound is almost a “ferromagnet”. Here, we report the observation of antiskyrmions in a second inverse tetragonal Heusler compound, Mn2Rh0.95Ir0.05Sn, which can be formed stoichiometrically without any Mn vacancies and which thus exhibits a much smaller magnetization. Individual and lattices of antiskyrmions can be stabilized over a wide range of temperature from near room temperature to 100 K, the base temperature of the Lorentz transmission electron microscope used to image them. In low magnetic fields helical spin textures are found which evolve into antiskyrmion structures in the presence of small magnetic fields. A weaker Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), that stabilizes the antiskyrmions, is expected for the 4d element Rh as compared to the 5d element Pt, so that the observation of antiskyrmions in Mn2Rh0.95Ir0.05Sn establishes the intrinsic stability of antiskyrmions in these Heusler compounds. Moreover, the finding of antiskyrmions with substantially lower magnetization promises, via chemical tuning, even zero moment antiskyrmions with important technological import.
Highlights
Recently, magnetic antiskyrmions were discovered in Mn1.4Pt0.9Pd0.1Sn, an inverse tetragonal Heusler compound that is nominally a ferrimagnet, but which can only be formed with substantial Mn vacancies
Individual and lattices of antiskyrmions can be stabilized over a wide range of temperature from near room temperature to 100 K, the base temperature of the Lorentz transmission electron microscope used to image them
In low magnetic fields helical spin textures are found which evolve into antiskyrmion structures in the presence of small magnetic fields
Summary
The temperature was subsequently increased successively in 25 K steps, and LTEM studies were carried out at each temperature These results are presented in the magnetic phase diagram shown as a contour map of the aSk density in the temperature (T) - magnetic field (B) plane (Figure 4a). We have successfully identified the existence of magnetic aSks in an inverse ferrimagnetic Heusler compound, Mn2Rh0.95Ir0.05Sn, that is fully stoichiometric, as compared with our earlier observations of aSks in the compound, Mn1.4Pt0.9Pd0.1Sn, that contains substantial Mn vacancies and which, as a consequence, is nearly ferromagnetic Antiskyrmions, in this second compound, are observed in a narrower region of field but, over a wide range of temperature.
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