Disorder-resilient transition of Helical to Conical ground states in M$_{1/3}$NbS$_2$, M=Cr,Mn

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Main Authors: Sahoo, Manaswini, Bonfà, Pietro, Hall, Amelia. E., Mayoh, Daniel. A., Corredor, Laura T., Wolter, Anja U. B., Büchner, Bernd, Balakrishnan, Geetha, De Renzi, Roberto, Allodi, Giuseppe
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author Sahoo, Manaswini
Bonfà, Pietro
Hall, Amelia. E.
Mayoh, Daniel. A.
Corredor, Laura T.
Wolter, Anja U. B.
Büchner, Bernd
Balakrishnan, Geetha
De Renzi, Roberto
Allodi, Giuseppe
author_facet Sahoo, Manaswini
Bonfà, Pietro
Hall, Amelia. E.
Mayoh, Daniel. A.
Corredor, Laura T.
Wolter, Anja U. B.
Büchner, Bernd
Balakrishnan, Geetha
De Renzi, Roberto
Allodi, Giuseppe
contents The discovery of chiral helical magnetism (CHM) in Cr$_{1/3}$NbS$_2$ and the stabilization of a chiral soliton lattice (CSL) has attracted considerable interest in view of their potential technological applications. However, there is an ongoing debate regarding whether the sister compound, Mn$_{1/3}$NbS$_2$, which shares the same crystal structure, exhibits similar nontrivial properties which rely on the stabilization of the lack of inversion symmetry at the magnetic ion. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive investigation of the magnetically ordered states of both compounds, using $^{53}$Cr, $^{55}$Mn and $^{93}$Nb nuclear magnetic resonance. Our results, supported by density functional calculations, detect in a high-quality single crystal of Cr$_{1/3}$NbS$_2$ all the signatures of the monoaxial CHM in a magnetic field, identifying it as a textbook NMR case. The detailed understanding of this prototypic behavior provides a reference for Mn$_{1/3}$NbS$_2$. Despite the much larger density of specific defects in this second single crystal, we confirm the presence of a CHM phase in the Mn compound, characterized by a very large critical field for the forced ferromagnetic phase ($\approx 5$ T for H$\parallel\hat c$).
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spellingShingle Disorder-resilient transition of Helical to Conical ground states in M$_{1/3}$NbS$_2$, M=Cr,Mn
Sahoo, Manaswini
Bonfà, Pietro
Hall, Amelia. E.
Mayoh, Daniel. A.
Corredor, Laura T.
Wolter, Anja U. B.
Büchner, Bernd
Balakrishnan, Geetha
De Renzi, Roberto
Allodi, Giuseppe
Materials Science
The discovery of chiral helical magnetism (CHM) in Cr$_{1/3}$NbS$_2$ and the stabilization of a chiral soliton lattice (CSL) has attracted considerable interest in view of their potential technological applications. However, there is an ongoing debate regarding whether the sister compound, Mn$_{1/3}$NbS$_2$, which shares the same crystal structure, exhibits similar nontrivial properties which rely on the stabilization of the lack of inversion symmetry at the magnetic ion. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive investigation of the magnetically ordered states of both compounds, using $^{53}$Cr, $^{55}$Mn and $^{93}$Nb nuclear magnetic resonance. Our results, supported by density functional calculations, detect in a high-quality single crystal of Cr$_{1/3}$NbS$_2$ all the signatures of the monoaxial CHM in a magnetic field, identifying it as a textbook NMR case. The detailed understanding of this prototypic behavior provides a reference for Mn$_{1/3}$NbS$_2$. Despite the much larger density of specific defects in this second single crystal, we confirm the presence of a CHM phase in the Mn compound, characterized by a very large critical field for the forced ferromagnetic phase ($\approx 5$ T for H$\parallel\hat c$).
title Disorder-resilient transition of Helical to Conical ground states in M$_{1/3}$NbS$_2$, M=Cr,Mn
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01631