Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Skyrmion phase and competing magnetic orders on a breathing kagomé lattice

  • Max Hirschberger,
  • Taro Nakajima,
  • Shang Gao,
  • Licong Peng,
  • Akiko Kikkawa,
  • Takashi Kurumaji,
  • Markus Kriener,
  • Yuichi Yamasaki,
  • Hajime Sagayama,
  • Hironori Nakao,
  • Kazuki Ohishi,
  • Kazuhisa Kakurai,
  • Yasujiro Taguchi,
  • Xiuzhen Yu,
  • Taka-hisa Arima,
  • Yoshinori Tokura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13675-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Understanding and controlling the skyrmion lattice (SkL) phase facilitates its versatile applications. Here the direct observation of a SkL phase with large topological Hall effect in centrosymmetric Gd3Ru4Al12 is reported, which is stabilized by thermal fluctuations and magnetic field without Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions.