Establishing the fundamental magnetic interactions in the chiral Skyrmionic Mott insulator Cu2OSeO3 by terahertz electron spin resonance
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Abstract
The recent discovery of Skyrmions in Cu2OSeO3 has established a new platform to create and manipulate Skyrmionic spin textures. We use high-field electron spin resonance with a terahertz free-electron laser and pulsed magnetic fields up to 64 T to probe and quantify its microscopic spin-spin interactions. In addition to the previously observed long-wavelength Goldstone mode, this technique probes also the high-energy part of the excitation spectrum which is inaccessible by standard low-frequency electron spin resonance. Fitting the behavior of the observed modes in magnetic field to a theoretical framework establishes experimentally that the fundamental magnetic building blocks of this Skyrmionic magnet are rigid, highly entangled and weakly coupled tetrahedra.
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Original language | English |
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Article number | 157205 |
Journal | Physical review letters |
Volume | 113 |
Issue number | 15 |
Publication status | Published - 7 Oct 2014 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |