Spontaneous chirality flip** in an orthogonal spin-charge ordered topological magnet

H Miao, J Bouaziz, G Fabbris, WR Meier, FZ Yang… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
The asymmetric distribution of chiral objects with opposite chirality is of great fundamental
interest ranging from molecular biology to particle physics. In quantum materials, chiral …

Phonon softening and atomic modulations in

AN Korshunov, AS Sukhanov, S Gebel, MS Pavlovskii… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
EuAl 4 is a rare-earth intermetallic in which competing itinerant and/or indirect exchange
mechanisms give rise to a complex magnetic phase diagram, including a centrosymmetric …

Rhombic skyrmion lattice coupled with orthorhombic structural distortion in

M Gen, R Takagi, Y Watanabe, S Kitou, H Sagayama… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The centrosymmetric tetragonal itinerant magnet EuAl 4 exhibits an intricate magnetic phase
diagram including rhombic and square skyrmion-lattice (SkL) phases in the external …

Thermodynamic insights into the intricate magnetic phase diagram of

WR Meier, JR Torres, RP Hermann, J Zhao, B Lavina… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The tetragonal intermetallic compound EuAl 4 hosts an exciting variety of low-temperature
phases. In addition to a charge density wave below 140 K, four ordered magnetic phases …

Charge density wave transition in the magnetic topological semimetal

R Yang, CC Le, P Zhu, ZW Wang, T Shang, YM Dai… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
In rare-earth intermetallic topological materials, carriers from topological bands mediate the
magnetic interactions between local moments, giving rise to a plethora of exotic quantum …

Spontaneous reversal of spin chirality and competing phases in the topological magnet EuAl4

AM Vibhakar, DD Khalyavin, F Orlandi… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Materials exhibiting a spontaneous reversal of spin chirality have the potential to drive the
widespread adoption of chiral magnets in spintronic devices. Unlike the majority of chiral …

Atomic Resolution Cryogenic 4D-STEM Imaging via Robust Distortion Correction

J Smith, Z Huang, W Gao, G Zhang, M Chi - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cryogenic four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM) imaging
is a useful technique for studying quantum materials and their interfaces by simultaneously …

Origin of charge density wave in topological semimetals SrAl4 and EuAl4

LL Wang, NK Nepal, PC Canfield - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Topological semimetals in BaAl4-type structure show many interesting behaviors, such as
charge density wave (CDW) in SrAl4 and EuAl4, but not the isostructural and isovalent …

Noncentrosymmetric, transverse structural modulation in , and elucidation of its origin in the family of compounds

S Ramakrishnan, SR Kotla, H Pi, BB Maity, J Chen… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
At ambient conditions SrAl 4 adopts the BaAl 4 structure type with space group I 4/mmm. It
undergoes a charge-density-wave (CDW) transition at T CDW= 243 K, followed by a …

Experimental progress in Eu (Al, Ga) 4 topological antiferromagnets

T Shang, Y Xu, S Gao, R Yang… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The non-trivial magnetic and electronic phases occurring in topological magnets are often
entangled, thus leading to a variety of exotic physical properties. Recently, the BaAl 4-type …