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Magnetostriction, piezomagnetism and domain nucleation in a Kagome antiferromagnet

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  • Qingkai Meng

    (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

  • Jianting Dong

    (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

  • Pan Nie

    (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

  • Liangcai Xu

    (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

  • Jinhua Wang

    (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

  • Shan Jiang

    (Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    PSL Research University)

  • Huakun Zuo

    (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

  • Jia Zhang

    (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

  • Xiaokang Li

    (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

  • Zengwei Zhu

    (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

  • Leon Balents

    (University of California Santa Barbara
    Canadian Institute for Advanced Research)

  • Kamran Behnia

    (PSL Research University)

Abstract

Whenever the elastic energy of a solid depends on magnetic field, there is a magnetostrictive response. Field-linear magnetostriction implies piezomagnetism and vice versa. Here, we show that Mn3Sn, a non-collinear antiferromanget with Weyl nodes, hosts a large and almost perfectly linear magnetostriction even at room temperature. The longitudinal and transverse magnetostriction, with opposite signs and similar amplitude are restricted to the kagome planes and the out-of-plane response is negligibly small. By studying four different samples with different Mn:Sn ratios, we find a clear correlation between the linear magnetostriction, the spontaneous magnetization and the concentration of Sn vacancies. The recently reported piezomagnetic data fits in our picture. We show that linear magnetostriction and piezomagnetism are both driven by the field-induced in-plane twist of spins. A quantitative account of the experimental data requires the distortion of the spin texture by Sn vacancies. We find that the field-induced domain nucleation within the hysteresis loop corresponds to a phase transition. Within the hysteresis loop, a concomitant mesoscopic modulation of local strain and spin twist angles, leading to twisto-magnetic stripes, arises as a result of the competition between elastic and magnetic energies.

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  • Qingkai Meng & Jianting Dong & Pan Nie & Liangcai Xu & Jinhua Wang & Shan Jiang & Huakun Zuo & Jia Zhang & Xiaokang Li & Zengwei Zhu & Leon Balents & Kamran Behnia, 2024. "Magnetostriction, piezomagnetism and domain nucleation in a Kagome antiferromagnet," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-10, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-51268-y
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51268-y
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