Polarized Neutron Reflectivity study of in-plane spin vortices formed in 2D rare-earth magnetic systems

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Spin vortices are most appealing characteristics of two dimensional 2D easy-plane spin systems which are receiving recent attention for their fundamental properties and possible technological applications involving nanostructured magnetic materials. Spin vortices are in-plane circular spinarrangements which may have core spins directing out-of plane to reduce exchange energy. A spin vortex exists together with its counterpart, known as anti-vortex, as a pair below a characteristic temperature, known as the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition. . Neutron scattering can only determine Bohr Magnetron per magnetic ion, this gives an unique measure of the BKT temperature of a 2D magnetic structure. We propose to measure this temperature as a function of orbital moment using Ho, Er and Gd based LB films that form 2D magnetic structures.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.101094862
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/101094862
Provenance
Creator Professor Abhijit Chakrabarti; Dr Mrinmay Kumar Mukhopadhyay; Professor Milan Sanyal; Dr Andrew Caruana
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-03-25T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-03-29T08:45:16Z