Effect of a magnetic field on the intermediate phase in Mn1–xFexSi: Spin-liquid versus fluctuations scenario


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We report results of the magnetic field influence on the chiral spin liquid state in Mn1–xFexSi single crystal with iron content x = 0.108 in proximity of a hidden quantum critical point. The use of small angle neutron scattering data together with magnetic susceptibility measurements down to 0.4 K and precise magnetoresistance measurements in the temperature range 2–20 K in magnetic field up to 5 T allowed us to construct the magnetic phase diagram of this compound in which at low magnetic fields B < 0.15 T an intermediate phase with short-range magnetic order exists in a wide temperature range 0.62 K < T < 9.1 K. It was found that the increase in magnetic field first results in the suppression of a transition to the spiral phase with long-range magnetic order at very low temperatures, and then induces a transition of the intermediate phase to a spin-polarized (ferromagnetic) phase with lowering temperature. The temperature of this transition TSP increases with magnetic field logarithmically, TSP ~ log(B), and results in formation of a singular point on the magnetic phase diagram located at T ~ 8.5 K and B ~ 3.5 T, which may be either a triple or a critical point. The possible spin-liquid nature of the intermediate phase is discussed.

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S. Demishev

Prokhorov General Physics Institute; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)

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Email: demis@lt.gpi.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 119991; Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow region, 141700

I. Lobanova

Prokhorov General Physics Institute; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)

Email: demis@lt.gpi.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 119991; Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow region, 141700

A. Bogach

Prokhorov General Physics Institute

Email: demis@lt.gpi.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 119991

V. Glushkov

Prokhorov General Physics Institute; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)

Email: demis@lt.gpi.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 119991; Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow region, 141700

V. Ivanov

Prokhorov General Physics Institute

Email: demis@lt.gpi.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 119991

T. Ischenko

Prokhorov General Physics Institute

Email: demis@lt.gpi.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 119991

N. Samarin

Prokhorov General Physics Institute

Email: demis@lt.gpi.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 119991

N. Sluchanko

Prokhorov General Physics Institute

Email: demis@lt.gpi.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 119991

S. Gabani

Institute of Experimental Physics

Email: demis@lt.gpi.ru
Eslováquia, Košice, 040 01

E. Čižmár

P.J. Šafárik University in Košice

Email: demis@lt.gpi.ru
Eslováquia, Košice, SK-04001

K. Flachbart

Institute of Experimental Physics

Email: demis@lt.gpi.ru
Eslováquia, Košice, 040 01

N. Chubova

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: demis@lt.gpi.ru
Rússia, Gatchina, 188300

V. Dyadkin

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute; Swiss–Norwegian Beamlines at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

Email: demis@lt.gpi.ru
Rússia, Gatchina, 188300; Grenoble, 38000

S. Grigoriev

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: demis@lt.gpi.ru
Rússia, Gatchina, 188300

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