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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus

MA 10: Focus Session: Higher-Order Magnetic Interactions - Implications in 2D and 3D Magnetism I

MA 10.4: Hauptvortrag

Mittwoch, 29. September 2021, 15:15–15:45, H5

Complex spin structures in thin transition metals films and their oxides — •Matthias Bode — Physikalisches Institut, Experimentelle Physik II, Universität Würzburg, Germany

The term “magnetism” subsumes a plethora of interactions originating from various physical mechanisms. Their competition often results in highly complex spin structures, such that the specific origin is masked and can only be unraveled by combining experiment and theory. For example, for an Fe monolayer on Rh(111) an up-up-down-down (↑↑↓↓) spin structure was predicted by DFT [1] which was only later understood to originate from the previously unconsidered four-spin–three-site beyond-Heisenberg interaction [2]. We could indeed confirm this ↑↑↓↓ spin structure experimentally by spin-polarized STM. Three orientational domains were observed, the field-dependent behavior of which is surprisingly complex, potentially due to uncompensated spins at domain boundaries. Furthermore, in a recent survey of submonolayer transition metal oxides on Ir and Pt(001) we observed highly complex spin structures which appears to be driven by a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya-enhanced Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction [3]. However, the orientation of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya vector and the observation of a long-wavelength spin rotation have not yet been adequately explained [4].

[1] A. Al-Zubi et al., Phys. Status Solidi B 248, 2242 (2011)

[2] A. Krönlein et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207202 (2018)

[3] M. Schmitt et al., Nature Comm. 10, 2610 (2019)

[4] M. Schmitt et al., Phys. Rev. B 100, 054431 (2019)