Ruthi Zielinski, Nhat Nguyen, Bryce Herrington, Amir Tarkian, Omar Taha, Wai Kiat Chin, Ather Mahmood, Xiaoqian Chen, Christoph Klewe, Padraic Shafer, Jim Ciston, Paul Ashby, Claudio Mazzoli, Robert Streubel
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Abstract
We study the effect of strain on the magnetic properties and magnetization configurations in nanogranular FexGe1-xfilms (x=0.53±0.05) with and without B20 FeGe nanocrystals surrounded by an amorphous structure. Relaxed films on amorphous silicon nitride membranes reveal a disordered skyrmion phase while films near and on top of a rigid substrate favor ferromagnetism and an anisotropic hybridization of Fedlevels and spin-polarized Gespband states. The weakly coupled topological states emerge at room temperature and become more abundant at cryogenic temperatures without showing indications of pinning at defects or confinement to individual grains. These results demonstrate the possibility to control magnetic exchange and topological magnetism by strain and inform magnetoelasticity-mediated voltage control of topological phases in amorphous quantum materials.
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Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter covers the whole of condensed matter physics including soft condensed matter and nanostructures. Papers may report experimental, theoretical and simulation studies. Note that papers must contain fundamental condensed matter science: papers reporting methods of materials preparation or properties of materials without novel condensed matter content will not be accepted.