Signature of anisotropic exchange interaction revealed by vector-field control of the helical order in a FeGe thin plate
Victor Ukleev, Oleg I. Utesov, Le Yu, Chen Luo, Kai Chen, F. Radu, Yuichi Yamasaki, Naoya Kanazawa, Yoshinori Tokura, T. Arima, J. S. White
Abstract
The authors demonstrate the vector-field control of the magnetic screw axis in a chiral helimagnet and show that the spiral period varies the orientation of the screw axis with respect to the principal crystallographic axes.
Topics & Concepts
Principal axis theoremSpiral (railway)Screw axisAnisotropySignature (topology)Orientation (vector space)Field (mathematics)Vector fieldOrder (exchange)Vector controlPerpendicularCondensed matter physicsMagnetic fieldPhysicsMaterials scienceGeometryOpticsMathematicsMathematical analysisPure mathematicsEconomicsVoltageQuantum mechanicsInduction motorFinanceMagnetic properties of thin filmsMagnetic Properties and ApplicationsTheoretical and Computational Physics