2022年第69回応用物理学会春季学術講演会

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[22p-E205-1~16] 10.1 新物質・新機能創成(作製・評価技術)

2022年3月22日(火) 13:45 〜 18:15 E205 (E205)

大矢 忍(東大)、関 宗俊(東大)、松野 丈夫(阪大)

14:45 〜 15:00

[22p-E205-5] Observation of spontaneous x-ray magnetic circular dichroism in the antiferromagnetic Mn3Sn thin film

〇Shoya Sakamoto1、Tomoya Higo2、Masanobu Shiga1、Kenta Amemiya3、Satoru Nakatsuji1,2,4,5、Shinji Miwa1,4 (1.ISSP, Univ. of Tokyo、2.Phys. Dept., Univ. of Tokyo、3.IMSS, KEK、4.TQSI, Univ. of Tokyo、5.JHU)

キーワード:Mn3Sn, XMCD, Antiferromagnetism

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) is usually inapplicable to antiferromagnets in the absence of external magnetic fields. However, it was recently proposed that the inverse triangular spin structure (or the ferroic order of cluster magnetic octupole) of a noncollinear antiferromagnet can induce finite XMCD signals. To test this proposal, we performed XMCD measurements on an epitaxial Mn3Sn (1-100) thin film prepared by molecular beam epitaxy.
We observed finite XMCD signals even when magnetic fields were sufficiently weak (0.1 T). Because the spectral line shape is distinct from that taken with stronger magnetic fields (5 T), we conclude that the XMCD spectra taken with 0.1 and 5 T predominantly reflect the inverse triangular spin structure and spin canting, respectively.